It was a dog-eared, paperback copy of Paul Brickhill's The Great Escape — the epic true story of the mass breakout by allied airmen from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner of war camp in World ...

On March 17, 1943, Australian flight officer Paul Brickhill had two big breaks. The 26-year-old was shot down over Tunisia and captured by Italian soldiers. But not only did he manage to escape ...

Paul Brickhill, libertion fighter and founder of Zimbabwe's busiest and most well known arts and culture hub, The Book Café, is remembered for a courageous lifelong human rights struggle.

But Brickhill’s brand of heroism was (and still is) a slippery thing. The Cassell paperback edition ofhis 1954 book Reach for the Sky has the subtitle The Story of Douglas Bader: Hero of the ...

From Paul Brickhill's true story of a remarkable mass breakout by Allied POWs during World War II, producer-director John Sturges has fashioned a motion picture that entertains, captivates ...

Paul Brickhill is a white Zimbabwean who runs the Book Cafe in Harare - a performing arts venue which has become synonymous with freedom of speech and expression in a country where many people ...

Founder of the arts center Paul Brickhill said he was shocked when the landlord, Old Mutual Zimbabwe, told him that he could not renew the lease for The Book Café and Mannenberg Performing Arts ...

As a record of a British operational triumph during the last war, The Dam Busters [adapted from Paul Brickhill's Enemy Coast Ahead] is a small slice of history, told with painstaking attention to ...

The Great Escape, based on Paul Brickhill’s first-hand account, tells in almost hypnotic detail how a mixed bag of P.W.s work together to pull off one of the most ingenious and highhearted ...