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'Thank you and goodbye': No cheers for the one that got away from Shropshire POW camp
A new book has revealed Shropshire's very own great escape - after a prisoner of war tunnelled out of his camp in the county . . . then wrote a letter of thanks to his captors before making it back to Germany.
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