The Great Escape - Revision history

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 The movie was slighted by [[liberals]] at the [[Academy Awards]], receiving no [[Oscars]] and nominated only for a minor award (Best Film Editing).
-The story was first told in a book <i>The Great Escape</i>, in 1950.,<ref name="Book">Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape. United Kingdom: Norton, 1950. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KEWdJvOdZ2wC]</ref> which is based on a true story.
+The story was first told in a book <i>The Great Escape</i>, in 1950,<ref name="Book">Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape. United Kingdom: Norton, 1950. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KEWdJvOdZ2wC]</ref> which is based on a true story.
 From its description:<ref name="Book"/><blockquote>They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance.

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 The movie was slighted by [[liberals]] at the [[Academy Awards]], receiving no [[Oscars]] and nominated only for a minor award (Best Film Editing).
-The story was first told in a book <i>The Great Escape</i>, in 1950.<ref>Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape. United Kingdom: Norton, 1950. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KEWdJvOdZ2wC]</ref>
+The story was first told in a book <i>The Great Escape</i>, in 1950.,<ref name="Book">Brickhill, Paul. The Great Escape. United Kingdom: Norton, 1950. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KEWdJvOdZ2wC]</ref> which is based on a true story.
-From its description:<blockquote>They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance.
+From its description:<ref name="Book"/><blockquote>They were American and British air force officers in a German prison camp. With only their bare hands and the crudest of homemade tools, they sank shafts, forged passports, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian clothes. They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from German surveillance.
 It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than six hundred men--every one of them, every minute, every hour, every day and night for more than a year.</blockquote>

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 '''The Great Escape''' (1963) is a thrilling [[conservative]] account of [[Allied]] prisoners of war planning to escape from a brutal [[Germany]] prisoners' camp in [[World War II]].  It starred the [[Republican]] [[Steve McQueen]], and is ranked as the 18th greatest war film of all time.<ref>[https://www.vulture.com/article/best-war-movies-ranked.html The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema].
-By Keith Phipps], ''Vulture'', Nov 11, 2020</ref>
+By Keith Phipps, ''Vulture'', Nov 11, 2020</ref>
 The movie was slighted by [[liberals]] at the [[Academy Awards]], receiving no [[Oscars]] and nominated only for a minor award (Best Film Editing).

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−	'''The Great Escape''' (1963) is a thrilling [[conservative]] account of [[Allied]] prisoners of war planning to escape from a brutal [[Germany]] prisoners' camp in [[World War II]]. It starred the [[Republican]] [[Steve McQueen]], and is ranked as the 18th greatest war film of all time.<ref>[https://www.vulture.com/article/best-war-movies-ranked.html The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema.	+	'''The Great Escape''' (1963) is a thrilling [[conservative]] account of [[Allied]] prisoners of war planning to escape from a brutal [[Germany]] prisoners' camp in [[World War II]]. It starred the [[Republican]] [[Steve McQueen]], and is ranked as the 18th greatest war film of all time.<ref>[https://www.vulture.com/article/best-war-movies-ranked.html The 50 Greatest War Movies Ever Made A look back at a genre that has inspired a century of cinema].
	By Keith Phipps], ''Vulture'', Nov 11, 2020</ref>		By Keith Phipps], ''Vulture'', Nov 11, 2020</ref>