[b]Very fine work. 10/10[/b]
The Great War magazine, September 2018 – reviewed by Mark Marsay
[b]Very fine work. 10/10[/b]
The Great War magazine, September 2018 – reviewed by Mark Marsay
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Carefully and sensitively researched, [i]A Cruel Captivity[/i] differs in a number of respects from other moving POW accounts , in that it covers the experiences of 22 servicemen who were held captive in numerous locations through South East Asia.
The book also examines the various mental and physical effects that the prisoners' captors' treatment had on them. The author's handling of the 'legacy' of their experiences during the post-war years makes this moving book particularly important.
For a full understanding of this dreadful aspect of the Second World War, [i]A Cruel Captivity[/i] is a must-read.
COFEPOW Quarterly
Carefully and sensitively researched, [i]A Cruel Captivity[/i] differs in a number of respects from other moving POW accounts , in that it covers the experiences of 22 servicemen who were held captive in numerous locations through South East Asia.
The book also examines the various mental and physical effects that the prisoners' captors' treatment had on them. The author's handling of the 'legacy' of their experiences during the post-war years makes this moving book particularly important.
For a full understanding of this dreadful aspect of the Second World War, [i]A Cruel Captivity[/i] is a must-read.
COFEPOW Quarterly
Speaking at the launch, Sir Nick Young, chairman of the Monte San Martino Trust, said: “We are here to celebrate the life of a really remarkable man. The book is right up there with the very best of the genre.
“It’s a book of passion, of deprecating honesty and common sense, and of a love of Italy. This book told me that this man is indomitable and undaunted. Frank was constantly on the look-out to escape. And every page of this delightful book spells of hope.”
Sir Nick Young, chairman of the Monte San Martino Trust
Speaking at the launch, Sir Nick Young, chairman of the Monte San Martino Trust, said: “We are here to celebrate the life of a really remarkable man. The book is right up there with the very best of the genre.
“It’s a book of passion, of deprecating honesty and common sense, and of a love of Italy. This book told me that this man is indomitable and undaunted. Frank was constantly on the look-out to escape. And every page of this delightful book spells of hope.”
Sir Nick Young, chairman of the Monte San Martino Trust
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Behind the Wire
Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced by the British and American airmen who were shot down in European skies during World War Two, to be incarcerated 'behind the wire' in enemy camps. With eloquence and a clear enthusiasm for the subject… Read more...
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A Talent for Adventure
Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both escaped from… Read more...
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Prisoner of the Gestapo
Tom Firth begins his extraordinary memoir by describing his unusual childhood in Japan and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in his mother’s native Poland only to split up when Poland was overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped… Read more...
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Gunther Pluschow
Gunther Plüschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history - during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British mainland and make it all the way back to the Fatherland. Yet, although his daring break for freedom in 1915 is astonishing in its own right, Plüschow was much more than simply… Read more...
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The Devil's Workshop
One of the most remarkable episodes of WWII was the Nazi attempt to forge currency and trigger the economic collapse of the Allies. The counterfeit operation was one of the largest the world has ever seen and lead to the postwar reissue of sterling. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, 144 Jewish prisoners of 13 different nationalities… Read more...
Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded in this well-written, candid and perceptive memoir the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the… Read more...
