The Great Escape wasn’t so great in the end. Almost all the Allied participants in the famous breakout from a German prisoner-of-war camp were captured and most were killed.
It has always looked as if the plan went wrong — but what if something more sinister was at work? Had the Great Escapers been betrayed?
A newly uncovered document in the National Archives has revealed that Flight Lieutenant Desmond Plunkett, the map-maker and unlucky 13th man out of the camp, believed the Great Escape had been brought down — by its own side.
