Monopoly X
how top-secret World War II operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied POWs escape conceal spies and send secret codes
Monopoly X
how top-secret World War II operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied POWs escape conceal spies and send secret codes
Book - 2025
"The incredible true story of how Monopoly games were used to smuggle escape aids to Allied servicemen in German P.O.W. camps...and more"-- Provided by publisher.
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| 37413322525587 | متاح | New Adult Non-Fiction | 940.5472 ORBANES |
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York :
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,
[2025]
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| الطبعة: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Monopoly X : |b how top-secret World War II operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied POWs escape, conceal spies, and send secret codes / |c Philip E. Orbanes. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a How top-secret World War II operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied POWs escape, conceal spies, and send secret codes |
| 246 | 3 | |a How top-secret World War two operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied prisoners of war escape, conceal spies, and send secret codes | |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, |c [2025] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2025 | |
| 300 | |a xiv, 285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Preface -- Escape from Colditz -- The Monopoly man -- The deeds of conspirators -- The Americans join the game -- The Splaatz effect and the birth of Monopoly X -- The top hat: "Get out of jail free" -- "That's too wonderful to be true" -- Benoîte, la mademoiselle de la Monopoly -- Nori -- Baltic -- Monopoly and the brothers Parker -- The top hat: "For services rendered" -- The racecar and the racecar -- Love and treason -- The Cole mission and the operation -- The Baltic radioman -- Fingernails, Finns, and the fatherland -- Spaatz and the buna-werke -- The last days of Stalag Luft I -- Finale in France -- Epilogue: The final accounting. | |
| 520 | |a "The incredible true story of how Monopoly games were used to smuggle escape aids to Allied servicemen in German P.O.W. camps...and more"-- Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Prisoners and prisons, British. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a World War, 1939-1945 |x Prisoners and prisons, American. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prisoners of war |z Great Britain. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prisoners of war |z United States. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85106978 | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prisoners of war |z Germany. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Prisoner-of-war escapes |z Germany. | |
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