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This Great escape, the case of Michael Paryla, by Andrew Steinmetz

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This Great escape

by Andrew Steinmetz

the case of Michael Paryla

He had a paltry fifty-seven seconds of screen time in the most lavish POW film Hollywood ever produced. The film is "The Great Escape" the actor, though uncredited, is Michael Paryla. Shortly after filming, he died. Andrew Steinmetz reconstructs the life of a man seen by millions yet recognized by no one, whose history -- from childhood flight from Nazism to suspicious death twenty years later -- intersects bitterly, ironically, and often movingly with the plot of the great war film. c2013

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