Paul Chester Jerome Brickhill (20 December 1916 – 23 April 1991) was an Australian fighter pilot, prisoner of war, and author who wrote The Great Escape...
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The Great Escape is a 1950 book by Australian writer Paul Brickhill (1916-1991), that provides an insider's account of the March 1944 mass escape from...
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The Great Escape (1963), which was based on a book by former prisoner Paul Brickhill. The camp was liberated by Soviet forces in January 1945. The site of...
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The Dam Busters (film) (category Films based on works by Paul Brickhill)
Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead (1946) by Guy Gibson, the film depicts the true...
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The Great Escape (film) (category Films based on works by Paul Brickhill)
Panavision, and its musical score was composed by Elmer Bernstein. Based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 non-fiction book of the same name, the film depicts a heavily...
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Langelaan, and The Great Escape (1963), based on the personal account of Paul Brickhill. He directed the popular 1967 film To Sir, with Love, for which he also...
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The Dam Busters is a 1951 non-fiction book by Paul Brickhill about Royal Air Force 617 Squadron originally commanded by Wing Commander Guy Gibson V.C....
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recaptured escapees. It was the basis of The Great Escape, a book by Paul Brickhill describing the escape and The Great Escape, a film based on the book...
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Reach for the Sky (category Films based on works by Paul Brickhill)
aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won...
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Canadian actor Paul Breitner (born 1951), German international footballer Paul Breyne (born 1947), Belgian politician Paul Brickhill (1916–1991), Australian...
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1951 book by Paul Brickhill about Operation Chastise The Dam Busters (film), a 1955 film about Operation Chastise, based on Paul Brickhill's eponymous 1951...
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the free dictionary. Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd edition, 2010, s.v. Dogsbody definition Lackey definition Reach for the Sky, Paul Brickhill v t e...
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Brickhill, Buckinghamshire Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire Little Brickhill, Buckinghamshire Joan Brickhill (1924–2014), South African actress Paul Brickhill...
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Sky may also refer to: Reach for the Sky (novel), a 1954 biography by Paul Brickhill about pilot Douglas Bader, the basis for the 1956 film Reach for the...
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("After me the flood"), and a squadron badge were chosen. According to Paul Brickhill there was some controversy over the motto, with the original version...
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Publishing. ISBN 978-1780964621.[permanent dead link] "Dam Busters, Paul Brickhill. "12000lb Tallboy Bomb". "What the Dambusters Did Next - YouTube". YouTube...
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Brickhill, Paul (1954). Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader DSO, DFC. London: Odhams Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-55750-222-3. Brickhill, Paul (2004)...
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210 The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill page 236 The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill page 240-243 The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill page 243 "Letter from...
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Cook Off. He was born on 25 March 1978 in London, England. His father, Paul Brickhill was a former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) soldier and...
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introduction of multiple four-engine bomber projects. Aviation author Paul Brickhill notes of the decision: "It was a fair assumption that it might be disastrous...
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to so few. Overy, Richard (2013). The Bombing War. Penguin. p. 322. Paul Brickhill, The Dambusters "Attack on Amiens Prison, 18th February 1944". RAF....
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North Sydney Intermediate High School, until 1929. RAF pilot and author Paul Brickhill was a school friend. After abandoning school at 15, Finch went into...
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as the "Great Escape" The Great Escape (film), a 1963 film based on Paul Brickhill's 1950 book of the same name The Great Escape (American TV series), a...
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for the Sky, the biography of Douglas Bader by Paul Brickhill; and The Great Escape, also by Brickhill. He was the subject of the television programme...
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originally created by Paul Brickhill, in order for his band, Luck Street Blues featuring Miriam Mandipira, David Ndoro and his son Tomas Brickhill, to have a venue...
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1951 book by Paul Brickhill about the operation. The Dam Busters, a 1955 film about the operation based on both the Gibson and Brickhill books Pine, L...
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left to join fellow indie pop band, Dear Enemy, and were replaced by Paul Brickhill (ex-MEO-245) on keyboards and bass guitarist, Rick Loriot (ex-Inserts)...
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October 19, 2015, Mutt telephones Walt Wallet with news regarding Jeff. Paul Brickhill (in The Dam Busters) referred to two test pilots as Mutt and Jeff. In...
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munitions factories. The film is based on the books The Dam Busters by Paul Brickhill and Enemy Coast Ahead by Guy Gibson. A number of B VII Lancasters in...
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in which 76 POWs escaped. That incident was documented in the 1950 Paul Brickhill book The Great Escape, and later was celebrated in the 1963 movie of...
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