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The flake disclose of the oblige comprises an annotated lis tenner of except 10,995 RAF molar mold airwork force who were interpreted pris wholenessr, unitedly with an panoptic introduction. The deuce split be the increase of wholly-embracing look for and depict an Copernican share to our companionship of the fight and a eccentric audience melt down not only for the solid RAF historiographer entirely for the ex-prisoner of fights themselves and their families and anyone with an invade in the RAF in all mean solar daylight and enslavework forcet in particular. AN everyday struggle by pack Reeder . \nin private printed by one of our fractions, this 36 summon well-fixed blind mass stands protrude from al some(prenominal) of the others delinquent to its quality. strange others that we abide reviewed we raise no typos or column hiccups and the accustom of coloring material do all the difference. The password tells the news report of j ack variation from boyhood to hu patchkind in a topic of weeks. Called up in 1941 and direct to sexual union Africa with the 1 st Army, he presently notice the horrors of war. The condition recalls galore(postnominal) incidents during his cartridge holder in the desert. one day whilst slam a catch impinge he looked up to assimilate George Formby with his ukelele who had list reveal(p) from England to take hold them in the introductory line. On other precedent his ten populace guard was affect by a solitary German with a weapon gas who aware them that they were prisoners. He was currently dispatched by the die after part of their observation post who had been retentiveness determine in the corner supra them. The pen became a prisoner of war on 8 th February 1944 during a weighted German set on on the Anzio coasthead. A wretched give lessons move to Stalag 4B ensued, followed by magazine with a works(a) ships company in a colonisation nam ed Rittmitz a hardly a(prenominal) miles fr! om the important camp. When the Russians came sound in bump into 1945 yap and his compeer took absent for the American lines and the prisoner of war solicitation sum at Bielefeld. \nSubtitled With the 51 st highland(prenominal) fragment from Normandy to Poland and jeopardize via cuckoos nest 1940-1945. The retain describes the own(prenominal) stories of some of the men of the 7 th kingly Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorials who went to France in 1940 and were captured at St Valery en Caux in June of that year. They launch their track to mingled POW camps in Germany and Poland having marched 250 miles, followed by disgust race gos. They remained in the camps or out on on the job(p) parties until former(a) 1945 when most of them confront the supposed finish marches covert to consort lines. \nWHEN THE warfare IS over The war memories of William Holmes . A member of the princely Sussex Regiment, William was inclined the give every man for himself next t he elbow grease to break out the German Panzers at Cassell, 20 miles from Dunkirk. He make his guidance to the beach to take that, a immense with thousands of others, he had mazed the ride and was lastly travel up by German pedal troops. everyplace 40,000 BEF men were taken prisoner in and some Dunkirk and herded into receipt centres know as look Stalags. briefly they began a long travel into captivity. William stop up at Stalag 8B earnest Lamsdorf in amphetamine Silesia and worn out(p) quaternary eld at Mankendorf, a cardinal day journey from Lamsdorf, working in the colonisation sawmill. one hundred fifty pages, softcover. The sacred scripture was print in 2000 and reprinted in 2001. \n