In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil\'s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison.
The chapters describing the daring Escape attempts by Frank Morris and two accomplices from this.
Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the Rock\'s transition from a Spanish fort to the maximum-security penitentiary that housed such infamous inmates as Robert Stroud, aka the Birdman of Alcatraz, and mobster Al Scarface Capone.
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In 1963, just weeks before the original publication of this book, the last prisoner was escorted off Devil\'s Island and Alcatraz ceased to be a prison