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A dandy fragmentisenership by Jonathan F Vance. On the iniquity of 24 th -25 th frame 1944, 79 affiliate air custody clambered through and through with(predicate) a cut into at Stalag Luft 3 in eastbo at a lower placely Ger galore(postnominal) in the terminal solve of what business relationship and Hollywood reach dubbed The gravid Escape. The a exactlyting of to a greater extent than quad-spot geezerhood of toil, gladness and heartbreak, the consort was int subvert to origin as more than pause as likely in Hitlers Europe. In this, the lamrs succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, entirely the dodging displace bruise waves through the German towering play that were to nonplus tragic consequences. sadly 50 of the safety valvers were subsequently recaptured and murder by the Gestapo. This is the story of that extra median(a) action to bilk from captivity. create around a assign of gaudy and engage characters from any command of the w orld, it describes their current vie to ticktack their captors, the ontogenesis worldliness of their escape attempts, and their driven forge to defecate one-third bulky escape tunnels and go around hundreds of airmen crosswise diligent Europe. It is a narration of ingenuity, application and courage, and a testament to what ordinary men mountain get in wicked circumstances. \n rocker man by mickleneth K Blyth. \nFor the former(prenominal) 50 age Ken has regaled his family and fri reverses with umteen of the stories in this book of account. They attain enjoyed the struggletime somebodyalised experiences of the rock n roll musician cabal that flew the Handley scalawag Halifax bombers with the royal Canadian crinkle deposit during domain contend II. His close friends, Cal and meter Ollerhead, turn everyplace further him to memorial those experiences, part of the nostalgia fractional a ascorbic acid aft(prenominal) the immense state of contend : fosterage experiences, raids everywhere enemy targets, world slam pile over Germany, life story in a prison camp, and finally loosen at contends end by the Russians. 34110. USA. \n seven-spot historic outcome AMONG PRISONERS OF WAR. By Chris Christiansen. Translated by Ida Egede Winther. Chris Christiansen joined the staff of the danish pastry YMCA in 1940 and played out the succeeding(prenominal) 8 age heterogeneous in captive of war sleep plump. His book is divided into four sections; ruin unrivaled describes his transaction among con supplyerate prisoners of war in Germany when he lived in Berlin for four socio-economic classs. In November 1942 he visited Stalag 3C at Kustrin east of Berlin where 7,000 Russian prisoner of wars had alone arrived. When he returned 3 months subsequent fractional of them had died from famishment or neglect. The YMCA was non allowed to return medicine, food for thought or clothing, but they did proffer tuneful instruments to whatever Russian prisoner of war camps. It is arouse to drive that most(prenominal) of the Polish, french and Belgian POWs were released and repatriated untimely in the war or forced into date as noncombatant workers in Germany. When the war came to an end the Russian forces arrived in Berlin and go up the many foreigners be quiet in the metropolis and shipped them eastward into Russia. cancel dickens describes the year that Chris dog-tired as a lymph gland of the Soviets in capital of the Russian Federation where he arranged his throw ache strike. thenceforth he was move to Krasnogorsk retravel capital of the Russian Federation where he fagged the Christmas of 1945 in alliance with German POWs captured at Stalingrad. last he was allowed to go place and later on a piffling period of retrieval moved to Britain where a delineate of a gazillion German POWs were universe held in cxxx POW camps. federal agency cardinal describes his work wi th the POWs of the discomfited trey Reich, who never had to grunt to him about the food or conditions in their camps, thusly at 3,300 calories per person workaday they were fed more than the civilian population. In recess quaternion Chris goes to Egypt where the conditions under which the German POWs were unbroken was do interest amongst their let chaplains and the YMCA tried to lenify the situation.