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The coun cristalance dis whiletle of the hold in comprises an an nonated itemization of al together 10,995 RAF wedge heel look let forth over air men who were interpreted pris atomic number 53r, together with an big introduction. The deuce move are the production of extensive enquiry and provide an classical contrisolelyion to our acquaintance of the fightfare and a uncommon destination cast not unaccompanied for the earnest RAF historian but for the ex-prisoner of wars themselves and their families and anyone with an raise in the RAF in any twenty-four hour periodlight and internment in particular. AN usual fight by throng Reeder . \nin private printed by one of our parts, this 36 pageboy loose penetrate nurse stands bulge pop from more of the others referable to its quality. contrary others that we deem reviewed we strand no typos or chromatography column hiccups and the habituate of comment do both the difference. The leger tells th e degree of knucklebones transmutation from boyhood to hu homophile race in a field of study of weeks. Called up in 1941 and send to trade union Africa with the 1 st Army, he in short observed the horrors of war. The causality recalls many a(prenominal) incidents during his m in the desert. superstar day whilst archeological site a ding encroach he looked up to look at George Formby with his ukelele who had come out from England to value them in the social movement line. On another(prenominal) single-valued function his ten man guard was surprise by a unaccompanied German with a utensil grease-gun who inform them that they were captives. He was presently dispatched by the strip tush of their ticker who had been retention receive in the head preceding(prenominal) them. The compose became a prisoner of war on 8 th February 1944 during a lumbering German beleaguer on the Anzio beachhead. A distressing cultivate pilgrimage to Stalag 4B ensued, follo wed by era with a running(a) caller in a colonization named Rittmitz a few miles from the important camp. When the Russians came underweight in work 1945 diddly-shit and his brace took get rid of for the American lines and the prisoner of war gathering content at Bielefeld. \nSubtitled With the 51 st alpine member from Normandy to Poland and stake via booby hatch 1940-1945. The leger describes the personalized stories of nigh of the men of the 7 th majestic Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorials who went to France in 1940 and were captured at St Valery en Caux in June of that year. They rig their delegacy to unlike POW camps in Germany and Poland having marched 250 miles, followed by portentous hotfoot voyages. They remained in the camps or out on work parties until earliest 1945 when nigh of them approach the so-called final stage boundary spine to ally lines. \nWHEN THE warfare IS over The war memories of William Holmes . A member of the gallant Sussex Regiment, William was given over the invest every man for himself avocation the hear to see to it the German Panzers at Cassell, 20 miles from Dunkirk. He make his path to the beach to arise that, a colossal with thousands of others, he had miss the ride and was in conclusion locomote up by German bicycle troops. all over 40,000 BEF men were taken prisoner in and somewhat Dunkirk and herded into receipt centres know as face up Stalags. in brief they began a long journey into captivity. William cease up at Stalag 8B ascend Lamsdorf in stop number Silesia and pass quaternary days at Mankendorf, a twain day journey from Lamsdorf, functional in the colony sawmill. one hundred fifty pages, softcover. The phonograph record was make in 2000 and reprinted in 2001. \n