Zero Night: The Untold Story of World War Two's Greatest Escape by Mark Felton - A Book Recommendation. In "Zero Night," author and historian Mark Felton tells the story of an escape from Oflag VI-B in August 1942. Unlike the great escape of Stalag Luft III nearly two years later, the forty allied officers who attempted this breakout chose to storm the double fence perimeter with ladders. They called their escape plan Operation Olympia, known as the "Warburg Wire Job".