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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 / Philip E. Orbanes.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection D810.S7 O727 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Orbanes, Philip, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Secret service--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, British.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, American.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--United States.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Prisoner-of-war escapes--Germany.
- Prisoner-of-war escapes.
- Monopoly (Game).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 285 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- How top-secret World War II operations used the game of Monopoly to help Allied POWs escape, conceal spies, and send secret codes
- 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
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025]
- Summary:
- "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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-274) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780063425132
- 0063425130
- OCLC:
- 1526032093
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