<P> The book covers the planning , execution and aftermath of what became known as The Great Escape . Other escape attempts ( such as the Wooden Horse ) are mentioned as well as the postwar hunt for the Gestapo agents who murdered fifty of the escapees on Hitler 's direct order . The book was published in 1950 . Brickhill , a journalist before and after the war , had previously written the story four different ways , initially as a BBC talk , then as newspaper and Reader 's Digest articles , and in the 1946 book Escape to Danger which he co-wrote with Conrad Norton . By the time of the 1950 book , Brickhill had eliminated some of the less heroic aspects of the story , including the fact that a large proportion of the compound 's population had no interest in the escape . </P>
<P> The book covers the planning , execution and aftermath of what became known as The Great Escape . Other escape attempts ( such as the Wooden Horse ) are mentioned as well as the postwar hunt for the Gestapo agents who murdered fifty of the escapees on Hitler 's direct order . The book was published in 1950 . Brickhill , a journalist before and after the war , had previously written the story four different ways , initially as a BBC talk , then as newspaper and Reader 's Digest articles , and in the 1946 book Escape to Danger which he co-wrote with Conrad Norton . By the time of the 1950 book , Brickhill had eliminated some of the less heroic aspects of the story , including the fact that a large proportion of the compound 's population had no interest in the escape . </P>
when was the novel the great escape written
when was the novel the great escape written
1950
1950