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BRITISH AUTHOR Ben Macintyre has an unerring talent for unearthing familiar tales and retelling them in new and captivating ways. He has demonstrated this ability many times with World War II spy histories such as Rogue Heroes (2017), Double Cross (2012), and Operation Mincemeat (2010)—all books I liked well enough. But his latest page-turner, Prisoners of the Castle, trumps them all.
The book’s basic facts have been widely known for a long time: how the Wehrmacht opened a prisoner of war camp, Oflag IV-C, for Allied officers in a