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The Last Escape:The Untold Story Of Allied Prisoner's Of War In Germany 1944 45Stock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionHundreds of thousands of British and American servicemen were held as POW's in camps across Nazi Germany by time of the Normandy landings in June 1944. As winter settled across Europe and the Allied advance threatened German borders, prisoners were moved away from liberating forces. The POWs were forced to march hundreds of miles in appalling conditions. Hundreds died of disease, starvation and exhaustion. Yet when the war was over those who survived found their extraordinary tale was largely ignored and forgotten. Author descriptionJohn Nichol is a former RAF flight lieutenant whose Tornado fighter was shot down on a mission over Iraq during the Gulf War. He was captured and became a prisoner of war. He is the bestselling author of TORNADO DOWN and five other novels. He livesin Hertfordshire. Tony Rennell is the author of LAST DAYS OF GLORY for Viking, and WHEN DADDY CAME HOME. He lives in London NW3. Table of contentsThe Russians are coming; abandoned to their fate; out into the cold; fears of a massacre; the retreat from Stalag Luft IV; the deadly road to the west; the rivers of humanity; liberated by the Red Army; hostages of Stalin; waiting for Patton; the hell of a Fallingbostel; death by "friendly fire"; a German saviour?; heading for home; welcome back. Appendices: chronology of the end of the Second World War; the Yalta Agreement on prisoners of war, February 1945; the Senior American Officer's complaint about conditions at Stalag XIIID, Nuremberg; the numbers game. |