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The Wooden Horse

             We were going for the central library visit on 1st August. There I picked up one book, which title was interesting. The title was, The Wooden Horse' by Eric Williams. I thought that it maybe book about something magical and adventurous things, there will one magical wooden horse which can fly perhaps. But my all prejudices fallen wrong when I begun to read the book. There were no horse at all. Not wooden nor real. It was a novel about prisoners and their escaping.

              Story starts in prison, Stalag, Poland. There were prisoners like Peter, Bennet, Phillip, and others. They thought about escaping and thought about wooden horse of Troy, means a vaulting horse, a box horse. They made it and started to digging tunnel in ground. John crouched inside the horse and working quickly. The whole of the work was done with a table knife and a red hot poker. Peter worked slowly and carefully. He was alone down there and even a small fall of sand would be enough to pin him. There was no light in the tunnel and very little air. He was working entirely naked, because it was cooler. They worked until they had dug a tunnel forty feet long. They made tapdoors, one in barber's shop and another in kitchen.

                 After facing so many problems, at last they succeed in their mission. They had dug a tunnel which could give them freedom. John was first who come out first. Then peter came. Once they reached the edge of the wood, they didn't wait for Philip, but walked slowly away from the wire, towards the centre of the forest.

                  They cleaned up themselves and decided to run away in train. But they afraid and decided to stay in hotel room. But all the rooms were taken. So, they passed the night under the bridge. In morning again they decided to go to railway station and go to 'Kustrin' It was a small town, so they afraid that they shall be noticed. So, they decided to go away from here. They searches in cafe if any helpful peoples can found. And they found a man named Dane. He took them into the ship and also arranged further facilities.

                When they reach to Denmark, Sigmund took them to the army camp. And then they send them to Sweden, where they meet Philip. They recall old days and in the end, captain and major helped them to go to Britain.

             This novel is also known as The great escape.


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