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Title: Hopelessly outdated
Review: I expected this book to be a sort of manual on escaping from prisons. There is some information on modern prisons but not much. The book dwells mainly on WWII POW camp escape techniques. For example, the section on forgery of passes spends the entire chapter talking about how allied POWs forged passes and papers, and then finishes with the paragraph "The forging techniques of those days were adequate for the era. Today, it would be almost impossible to produce passable forgeries of most I.D. documents." I expect that this book was really written with a different title and different pitch, focusing on WWII POW history, but that the publisher persuaded the author to add a paragraph here and there about modern prisons and change the title, so that it could be marketed as a prison escape technique book.
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