Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre Penguin NOTICE TO STAFF: There has

NOTICE TO STAFF: There has been a disturbing increase in cheeriness

and there's no way all these foraged mushrooms are going to sit well in his stomach

or chicken coop

and he soon finds himself facing down an entire sect of enemy Golds

While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as “the prize of all the oceans

Prisoners of the Castle by Ben Macintyre Penguin NOTICE TO STAFF: There hasIn this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape.