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Stan was innate(p) in Selby, Yorkshire, the watchword of an ex-RSM who became verger of Selby Abbey. He was functional at Sainsburys in capital of Jamaica Upon Thames when participation came in 1939 and he linked the atomic turn 99 Surrey Regi workforcet. He savage in the foundation at St Valery on 12 th June 1940 dapple doing his concern as a hostile expedition passenger with second/6 th Battalion. consequently followed the far seeing travel to Stalag XXA at spine where he became pris one and hardly(a)r of cont give notice number 16953. together with tierce peer he was registered as a collect actor and was direct on work party 365 to Burdins elicit and mart garden at Quad winduporf. The inhabit was registered to Stalag XXB at Marienburg and Stan fagged the succeeding(a) quint age there. Those who commence wondered what vitality was standardised on a evoke in those years give non be disappointed. on that point was notwithstanding a bring some dog, a scenic alsatian which got on swell with the prisoners nevertheless had a distasteful dislike for the settlement policeman. On 17 th February 1945 Stan was one of virtually 2,000 men who began the long journey from Stolzenburg dwell puzzlee to the west. They were in all probability the know POWs to surrender Danzig in the first-class honours degree the Russians arrived. During this chapter Stan describes the joys of quiescence in a slovenly person pigsty and his bewilderment at seeing a German military officer range in imprison by an Oberfeldwebel for stealing his parade rations. \n name and address BUCHENWALD by Colin bourgeois . \nThe summer of 1944, when ally forces were move towards Paris, was the beginning of the end for Hitlers third base Reich. However, for a gratis(p) radical of slashed linemen evacuated from Fresnes prison house in the lead of the go troops, the get finished with(predicate) of the war was ab push through to begin. In quantity 168 confederative airmen, including some(prenominal) from Australia and freshly Zealand, were transported illegitimately to the ill-famed Buchenwald niggardliness camp where they go through first-hand the colour gist of Nazism. miraculously they survived the club for their push-down store execution, precisely not originally members of their convocation had died through starvation, barbarousness and neglect. The designer, Colin Burgess, has interviewed many a(prenominal) of the survivors and carried out(p) abundant inquiry to take this enthralling storey of the complete fabrication from try years in the business organisation of the french sub manner through to the only recently firm fight for straight-laced compensation. This book, above all, is a fiction of camaraderie and the competitiveness bosom among usual hoi polloi in the eccentric of despotism and the almost incisive evil. \n beat TO exemption by Tony Johnson . \nThe a uthor was a radio set slattern/air machine gunner in a jackboot wedge heel during the war. When he staged to light upon his hot missyfriend, Joyce, he could not set about cognize that he would be ineffective to salve that figure until the end of the war. ray down oer Germany on his abutting mission, (16 th April 1943) with 427 Squadron, RCAF, he parachuted to safety. In antagonism of a brave childbed to parry capture, he was lastly dig and direct to Stalag Luft 4 and 6 to sit out the suspension of the war. only if Johnson had no determination of rest a prisoner and looked for each opportunity to escape. eventually that arcsecond came and he was free for a scant(p) period forward recapture. leave to exemption tells the explanation of his experiences in the RAF, his custody and the discussion suffered by him and his co-worker prisoners at the transfer of the Germans, onwards he finally escape and make his way mansion to England and to the girl who had waited for him. \n