THE TUNNEL KING

Title of Book: The Tunnel King

Author of Book: Barbara Hehner

Publisher of book: HarperTrophyCanada

Place of Publication: United States of America

Year of Publication: 2004

Number of pages: 147

Where I found the book: CHS library

Story review

This book is titled the Tunnel King because this book is about a man named Wally Floody who was captured by Germans during world war two when his planed got hit and he had to bail out. The Germans took him to a POW (prisoner of war) camp where he and some other guys planed to escape and his role was the boss of all tunneling operations they nick named him the Tunnel King. This book took place mostly in Germany some of his training to be a pilot was in Brandon MB and his home town was Toronto MB. Wally was captured on his first mission in 1941 when a German fighter plane shot his plane down and he had to bail out. Wally was born in1918 and escaped imprisonment in 1945. The only main character in this book was Wally there were some other characters but they were not main. The problem in this book was Wally was captured and could not escape despite his best efforts all his tunnels were ether discovered or collapsed. The only reason Wally escaped was because Russian forces captured the POW camp he was in so he didn’t really escape he was just set free by Russians. I think this book was about never giving up even if it’s hard because the tunnel collapsed on Wally more than once but he kept trying even though in the end his plan never did come through.

Christian Perspective

This book  was not based on a Christian perspective but it showed some of Christ like qualities for instance Wally did not get all upset  when things didn’t go his way instead he kept trying and the Germans even though they were the enemy the Germans still showed respect to them. The prisoners also showed respect to the Germans they did not try to kill them or say words to them that were negative. Even though this book was not based on a Christian perspective it still showed Christ like qualities.

My thoughts

Over all I liked this book but some parts like the beginning of the book  were it  was telling about his normal life and all that  kind of stuff was a little on the boring side of things but closer to the middle and the end of the book it got more eventful. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes books that are true and is based on wars and history.