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The book detailed the daring escape of 109 Union prisoners from Libby Prison in February 1864 against horrific conditions. The author was drawn to telling this story because it was a significant part of history that was largely forgotten and involved the essence of human nature during dire circumstances.
He's the author of Escape, the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jailbreak.
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The book detailed the daring escape of 109 Union prisoners from Libby Prison in February 1864 against horrific conditions. The author was drawn to telling this story because it was a significant part of history that was largely forgotten and involved the essence of human nature during dire circumstances.
He's the author of Escape, the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jailbreak.
You add all those ingredients for each of these three books that I wrote, including the book Escape on the Libby Prison Breakout.
That ended up being, I guess, an inadvertent positive thing for me because Cavada speaks multiple languages. He's very smart. He's a great observer and he survives this hellacious imprisonment at Libby and he writes about it. So his journal was a treasure trove for me.
That was my conversation with Robert P. Watson, distinguished professor of history and author of Escape, the story of the Confederacy's infamous Libby Prison and the Civil War's largest jailbreak.