Stalag Luft III it as a longer third-person narrative under the title "The Wooden Horse", which was filmed as "The Wooden Horse" in 1950. He included many details omitted in his first book, but changed his name to "Peter Howard", Michael Codner to "John Clinton" and Oliver Philpot to "Philip Rowe". Williams also wrote a prequel, "The Tunnel", an extended study of the mentalities of life as a prisoner of war. Although not an escape novel, it shows the profound urge to escape, and explores the ways that camp life affected men's emotions. Paul Brickhill was an Australian-born Spitfire pilot, shot down in
Stalag III-D Stalag III-D Stalag III-D was a World War II German Army prisoner-of-war camp located in Berlin. The camp was established on 14 August 1940 on the corner of Landweg and Osdorferstraße in Berlin-Lichterfelde. The commandant and camp administration offices ("Kommandantur") were later located at Belle-Alliance Straße 106-107, in Kreuzberg. With prisoners from Belgium, Great Britain, France, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union, Poland, USA, Italy and Czechoslovakia, the camp's maximum capacity was 58,000 men. Prisoners were mostly allocated to sub-camps ("Zweiglager") and work details ("Arbeitskommando") in and around the city. Their medical needs were provided by "Reserve Lazarett" ("Reserve Hospital") 119 at Neukölln