I enjoyed reading his books.

Have just finished Colditz. Another great read...

Fascinating, thank you!

Stunning series on bbc radio 4. Ben... You are a star. Please write another book real soon.

Just finished the book today, my second Macintyre book. Excellent read. Shabash! Looking forward to my next.

I'm just listening to the audiobook now and enjoying it very much. He was brave to take on the narration and is doing a fine job. As in his other books, he brings a unique perspective to the topics he chooses.

Great presentation. Just finished watching the 1970 BBC production. Love this stuff! Got to get more of his books!

I had done research on Colditz as a project. I learned that the Polish could pick almost any lock. For awhile, the French and Polish more adept with escaping than the British. Eventually each country took turns. I also learned that the myth was, like in the GREAT ESCAPE, everyone wanted out which wasn't true. Some would have tried escaping daily if given the opportunity. Some were: we are lucky to be alive especially after the SHOOT TO KILL ORDER by Hitler. Some were I just want to survive and go home. It was a very eclectic group

Looking forward to reading Colditz 📚 😀

The Colditz series of the 70s was in colour, you must have had a black and white tv .

Starred Robert Wagner as I recall.

Considering what this story is about, I think her words on the author being the real hero a bit strange to say the least🤷‍♂️

Read this book. Couldnt put it down. Thank uou

And yet after all the escapes and intelligence being passed back and forth from Colditz the allies still allegedly didn't know about the castle when they were attacking it ahead of its liberation, I don't know, the more time goes on the more I think Oflag 4c was much like many wartime legends, just fictional propaganda that did its job in times of national hubris, I mean Reid patented the board game but his opportunism seemingly didn't extend to detailing his escape much, beyond one picture of him in his getaway gear there's hardly any interviews, you'd think one who could lend his patronage to such trivial things as a game would hardly be cagey about the meatiest part of the story ie. the escape itself - if not for his own amusement then certainly at the hungry-eared request of others, it being so audacious you'd think there'd have been more out there but as with most who claim involvement or association with any of the notable wartime escapades 'they never talk about it', also there's the magical disappearance of the glider, "oh the Germans must've burnt it" they say... so they've enough sense of respect for novelty and audacity that they'll keep every scrap of wire and rope for a museum but readily torch a 30ft glider made from beds and jam? Just too many inconsistancies when you weigh it all against natural human behaviour, the same can be said about the Wooden Horse escape, the 3 protagonists, where are their testaments? All these men with such fantastic stories that just seem to vanish into obscurity

The recorded audio is too low.

where is the audio?

Ben Macintyre tend to switch from Imperial to metric measure for no obvious reason, even in the same sentence. This lack of consistency is some what disconcerting. Also, there's the usual confusion between cement and concrete you get with middle class Brits. Jack, the Japan Alps Brit

The Colditz Story, a 1955 film was in Black and White but the 1970's BBC TV series Ben refers too was in colour. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colditz_(1972_TV_series)

The TV series wasn't in black and white

Just in case anyone wonders if the glider flew or not...... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a8mEltyJsL22qac.html

Your comments are actually very modern and left wing, Apart from Homosexuality, Virtually EVERYTHING you talk about is in Major Pat Reid's book, And was even mentioned in the early 70s TV series of Colditz, You are misleading modern Historians, into thinking they were racist, How could an Indian Officer get away with escaping in Nazi Germany,? It would have been a waste of their resources at the time, And the subject of None commissioned officers was also dealt with in the book, and in the series, they were at much greater risk, of either being shot or put in hard labour camp's.

This is word for word the same as the BBC Radio documentary from 1974

Why does MacIntyre keep rehashing tales from the past? All he needs to do is recommend the original versions. I bought and read The Colditz Story’ at school in the mid-50s, then the follow-up books. Ditto ‘The Man who never was’ tale much later.

Just read the Saturday Times article that Ben wrote about Douglas Bader…. Whilst it was an interesting article and dealt rather heavily on his failings as a human being, I felt is was rather flawed and quite disingenuous. He may well have been a difficult and irascible individual but it was those very flaws that made him such a remarkable and brave pilot and leader of men. Society needs people like this to lead the majority through adversity. Sadly the article also besmirches him over his views (at that time) over Rhodesia and South Africa. In this matter I take considerable offence. If you read his actual comments he says quite rightly that both of these countries would struggle if the status quo failed…. And he was totally correct. Look at these two countries now, both complete and utter basket cases. Please let us stop the platitudes to the Pc and Woke brigades who seem incapable of seeing the wood from the trees and deal solely with the facts. Bader may well have had some flaws as a man..but who doesn’t…. In his case, any failings he had as an individual are utterly irrelevant and fatuous when compared to the leadership, ability and inspiration he gave to those pilots during the Battle of Britain, without whom this Country may never have won the war ! So please Ben Macintyre, I urge you to reevaluate your article. Like Douglas Bader you to have failings of judgement !

Frankly, I thought MacIntyre's book on Colditz very tendentious - clearly written to pander to a post-Brexit Tory Establishment. I struggled to get through it, and have had the same trouble with all his books. His account of Operation Mincemeat was particularly tedious, and the film was a crushing bore.

Such a non factual history teller. Just write everything towards your own woke believe system

Just finished "Prisoners of the Castle" Something of a Imperial-metric mishmash. Don't use this copywriter/proofreader again, Ben.

Bader: 9th AUGUST 1941, not 1943.....