The Barbed-Wire University
 

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I found this in a charity shop today... at first examination it appears to deal mostly with prisoners of the Japanese

Published by Aurum, 2011

ISBN 978 84513 629 1

Escape And Evasion
 

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Another charity shop find in Horncastle yesterday... it professes to avoid the best-known stories and concentrate instead on the groups who aided the escapers

Published by Arms & Armour Press in 1997

ISBN 1-85409-293-6


Perhaps Jim could kindly set up an index for the books we're beginning to collect here now (like the one in the beer thread) and make it easier to find these posts

Not forgetting, in this special week, the brave contribution of these lads, who tied up valuable enemy resources by scarpering whenever they could

@ the beast... guys such as your uncle and your tail-gunner workmate :salute:

https://i.imgur.com/lRP9pNy.jpg Found on eBay today and ordered (only £5.84)... looks promising

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I do include accounts of the Nazis' civilian camps along with PoW camps in this thread and this is going to be a priority read:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Arti.../dp/1529369045

Nice!

I've managed to get the trilogy of books written by Airey Neave.
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I also got "The Last Escaper" by Peter Tunstall.

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I found it quite interesting to read the accounts of two POW's who where in the same camps (although not always the same time) other then Colditz. Neave was a Royal Army officer who was captured in Calais after having being sent there during the final days of the fall of France in 1940. His writing after being captured was one of depression, sadness and failure which continued up until he made a "home run" during an escape with a Dutch officer. Neave nearly gave the game away by doing something that while today would see quite absurd was the reality then, he was almost caught for eating a bar of chocolate! Tunstall by contrast was a Handley Page bomber pilot who crash landed on the Dutch coast after an error in navigation caused him to land on a beach due to running out of fuel (the navigator was related to Lord Haw Haw and it was this same navigator who swore that they where over the Irish coast), in spite of a number of escape attempts Tunstall never successfully managed to escape but did rack up 415 consecutive days in the "cooler" manly for a past time known as "Goon Baiting" or in other words annoying the out of Jerry even at gunpoint. Tunstall offers a contrast to Neave as well aside from them being from different parts of the British military, their stories while being intertwined are very much light and dark.

This is an expensive thread for me to visit. Now please excuse me I got to do some online book shopping! :)

I watch the older movies and shows I knew a guy that was a b-24 gunner that was shot down and captured he owned the General store made the best sandwiches ever had

Thanks - I had no idea about any of these books, so I'm with August!

Ironically - given all he'd been through - Neave came to a sad and violent end at the hands of the IRA

Yes, most tragic circumstance....I later worked alongside two of those tasked with investigating the matter.

I read about that, didn't the IRA put a type of bomb under his car so when it went up the ramp from the underground car park it went off?

Something along them lines but I don't believe the exact details were publicly released, at least not at the time.

I got it today. I might not bother with the movie having discovered that it's a comedy!! :timeout::timeout::timeout:

I can't imagine why they would think it a good idea to make this into a piece of whimsy for Dirk Bogarde

It's a dark comedy.