How long does it take to read The Great Escape?
The Great Escape by Paul Brickhill takes about 4 hours 50 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 50 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1950. 264 pages, about 72,600 words.
10 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 4 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 50 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 2 minutes |
The page count is the median across 34 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The famous story of mass escape from a WWII German PoW camp that inspired the classic filmOne of the most famous true stories from the last war, The Great Escape tells how more than six hundred men in a German prisoner-of-war camp worked together to achieve an extraordinary break-out. Every night for a year they dug tunnels. Those who weren't digging forged passports, drew maps, faked weapons or tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes to wear once they had escaped. All of this was conducted under the very noses of their prison guards. When the right night came, the actual escape itself was timed to the split second - but of course, not everything went according to plan.
Subjects: German Prisoners and prisons, British Personal narratives, Prisons, Stalag Luft III, Escapes, Biography
