Inspiration
The escape plan, to walk out of the camp dressed as Red Cross observers, actually happened. It was briefly mentioned in Paul Brickhill's book The Great Escape.
The film's screenplay was later made into a novelisation with the same title by John Foley, which has erroneously caused John Foley to sometimes be credited as author of the novel which the film is based upon. However, it was the other way around: his novel is based on the film.
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“The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Although this garrulity of advising is born with us, I confess that life is rather a subject of wonder, than of didactics. So much fate, so much irresistible dictation from temperament and unknown inspiration enter into it, that we doubt we can say anything out of our own experience whereby to help each other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)