Those events take up about sixty pages in the two hundred and thirty page length. But clearly there wasn’t enough material in the actual escape storyline to merit a whole book. Obviously coming into a book called ‘Escape from Alcatraz’, one expects that most – if not all – of it will be about those guys who actually escaped from Alcatraz and how they did it. Campbell Bruce chronicles in spellbinding detail the absorbing saga of Alcatraz-the "inescapable" prison-where America's most violent and notorious prisoners resided in tortuous proximity to one of the world's favorite cities. The chapters describing the attempts of Frank Morris and two accomplices became the basis for the 1979 Clint Eastwood film, Escape from Alcatraz. It tells the story of the Rock's transition from a Spanish fort to a maximum-security penitentiary, of life on The Rock, and of fourteen ingenious escape attempts by the prisoners. This gripping true-crime classic was originally written in 1963 and published just weeks after the last prisoner was escorted off Devil's Island, marking the end of Alcatraz's days as a prison. the Birdman: only the most violent, desperate criminals went to Alcatraz Island, often referred to simply as "The Rock." This federal prison's conditions were so harsh that escape, riot, even death, were an inmate's only hope. Mobster Al "Scarface" Capone "Machine Gun" Kelly Robert Stroud, a.k.a.
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