. >>> next, co-authors david mills and kayla westra discuss their book "great wartime escapes and rescues" which focuses on world war ii prisoners of war and concentration camps. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. i'm steve leeberg with the public affairs staff. thanks so much for joining us tonight and thanks to the u.s. army command and general staff college. one of our longest, one of our best, one of our favorite programming partners for yet another what i know will be a compelling presentation. these guys are money, as many of you know, and we're so fortunate and privileged to be associated with them. tonight, we welcome david mills of the command general staff college and kayla westra of the minnesota west community and technical college, the co-authors of "great wartime escapes and rescues". i'll start by saying they had me in grade school. i was a fourth grader i think when hollywood released "the great escape," the classic adventure drama staring steve mcqueen, james garner, charles bronson, among others. it pretty quickly became a tv staple, and all of the guys in

i'm dave mills and this is my good friend kayla westra. we've been friends for about ten years. we worked together at minnesota west community college up until a few years ago when i took a position down here. about two years ago, kayla and i decided to right this book about p.o.w. escapes and rescues. many of you probably remember the bud man who was instrumental in orchestrating in of the discussions and the talk about world war ii down here. so when i told the budman about our book, he asked us to come and talk about a number of these episodes. so this evening we're going to start off talking about the history of prisoners and their treatment and then we'll talk about why it's so hard to make a successful escape. then we're going to talk about specific episodes of the prisoners and the escape attempts they made. we have a variety of stories for you tonight. we're going to talk about the great escape in a little bit more detail. we're going to talk about a prison camp in the philippines where the entire prison camp was rescued and then we're going to talk about a number of indi

. >>> next co-authors david mills and kayla westra talk about their book which focuses on prisoners of war and concentration camps. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >>> good evening. i'm steve with the library's public affairs staff. thanks so much for joining us tonight and thanks to the u.s. army commander and general staff college, one of our longest, one of our best, one of our favorite programming partners for yet another -- what i

. >>> next, co-authors david mills and kayla westra discuss their book "great wartime escapes and rescueswhich focuses on world war ii prisoners of war and concentration camps. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> good evening. i'm steve leeberg with the pub a