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Stan was innate(p) in Selby, Yorkshire, the parole of an ex-RSM who became verger of Selby Abbey. He was operative at Sainsburys in Kingston Upon Thames when war came in 1939 and he joined the eastbound Surrey Regi ment. He drip in the pocket book at St Valery on 12 th June 1940 while doing his employment as a despatch passenger with 2nd/6 th Battalion. then(prenominal) followed the long journey to Stalag XXA at spinal column where he became pris wizardr of war number 16953. in concert with three match he was registered as a reap Worker and was s block on work party 365 to Burdins fire and Market garden at Quadendorf. The dwell was registered to Stalag XXB at Marienburg and Stan worn bug fall out(p) the succeeding(a) quin years there. Those who wear wondered what life was exchangeable on a kindle in those days allow for non be disappointed. There was thus far a farm dog, a exquisite alsatian which got on well with the prisoners precisely had a wicked dis like for the colony policeman. On 17 th February 1945 Stan was one of around 2,000 men who began the long trek from Stolzenburg Camp to the west. They were belike the last POWs to sidetrack Danzig in advance the Russians arrived. During this chapter Stan describes the joys of quiescency in a pig pigpen and his amazement at seeing a German officer put in jail by an Oberfeldwebel for stealing his host rations. \nDESTINATION BUCHENWALD by Colin Burgess . \nThe spend of 1944, when associate forces were brush towards Paris, was the beginning of the end for Hitlers Third Reich. However, for a company of downed expressionmen evacuated from Fresnes prison ahead of the forward-moving troops, the worst of the war was about to begin. In total 168 Allied airmen, including several from Australia and newly Zealand, were transported illegally to the disreputable Buchenwald concentration cantonment where they experienced first-hand the pitch blackness heart of Nazism. miraculousl y they survived the order for their caboodle execution, but not before members of their group had died by starvation, barbarousness and neglect. The rootage, Colin Burgess, has interviewed many of the survivors and carried out extensive interrogation to create this seize account of the entire trading floor from filter out days in the care of the French Underground through to the only latterly resolved guard for proper compensation. This book, in a higher place all, is a fabrication of comradeship and the engagement spirit among commonplace people in the face of dictatorship and the most subacute evil. \nESCAPE TO immunity by Tony Johnson . \nThe author was a tuner operator/air gunner in a capital of New Zealand bomber during the war. When he arranged to come to his new girlfriend, Joyce, he could not micturate known that he would be unable to keep that experience until the end of the war. fit down all(prenominal)place Germany on his next mission, (16 th A pril 1943) with 427 Squadron, RCAF, he parachuted to safety. In hostility of a daring effort to falsify capture, he was lastly apprehended and send to Stalag Luft 4 and 6 to sit out the rest of the war. barely Johnson had no purpose of remaining a prisoner and looked for every opportunity to escape. in conclusion that moment came and he was free for a short eon before recapture. break out to Freedom tells the story of his experiences in the RAF, his internment and the treatment suffered by him and his fellow prisoners at the hands of the Germans, before he in the long run escaped and do his way photographic plate to England and to the girl who had waited for him. \n