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03-01-15, 07:14 PM | #136 |
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The Long Walk
Anyone ever read "The Long Walk"?
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03-01-15, 07:19 PM | #137 |
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I have in a Readers Digest collection of short stories. An amazing feat of endurance. I'm talking about the story of Slavomir Rawicz not the Steven King novel.
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03-01-15, 07:39 PM | #138 | |
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Yep, the one by the Polish soldier, a must read for everyone. I read it when I was 15 or so and it taught me to NEVER QUIT ! EVER ! It actually sent me down another path in life. |
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03-02-15, 06:46 AM | #139 |
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We had a chat about this one before, in the Book Suggestions thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...3&postcount=27 (Kindly posted by Dread Knot) |
03-05-15, 10:46 AM | #140 |
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Has anyone read this?
Not strictly PoW stuff, but I saw this in a shop today; didn't buy it (yet). Seems he broke in two or three times, with an inmate's help, in order to witness and document the things he'd heard were going on. Incredible but it's a true story... |
03-05-15, 10:54 AM | #141 |
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Yes, good book and the guy was one of the lucky ones who were eventually repatriated to the UK.
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03-24-15, 04:18 AM | #142 |
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Escape From The Nazis
I'd mislaid this when I came to prepare that photo of my stash of books; published in 1975 by Castle Books of New Jersey; ISBN: 0 89009 028 9 It contains PoW accounts of escape plus photos of their escape equipment and other paraphernalia.
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04-03-15, 03:50 AM | #143 |
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Was reminded of this movie yesterday, when I saw it's been digitally restored and re-released.
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07-04-15, 05:07 AM | #144 |
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"COLDITZ: OFLAG IV-C"
From OSPREY PUBLISHING; ISBN 978-1-84603-583-8
By Michael McNally I gave this a fresh post because it's important and hasn't been mentioned so far. Lots of photos of the place "then and now" plus a great top-down cutaway artwork showing the whole castle.
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07-04-15, 05:21 AM | #145 |
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I seen a doco on the telly where they recreated the Colditz glider and launched it off the roof, very cool stuff.
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07-04-15, 09:12 AM | #146 |
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Speaking of Colditz and it's famed glider I snapped this when I visited the castle back in 2010. Now I don't remember if these are the original plans or a copy of them.
I had also just finished reading this: Strictly speaking Los Baños wasn't a POW camp but a civilian internment camp, although towards the end the civilians where treated much like the POWs in other camps in the Philippines. All things considered the raid was one of the most successful camp liberations in the Pacific. This link is to a video showing the survivors of Los Baños being evacuated by LVTs or Amtracs. http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65...ternment-camps
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07-04-15, 12:16 PM | #147 |
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You've been to Colditz? I am not worthy...
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07-04-15, 01:45 PM | #148 |
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Yes I've been to Colditz, I wasn't there long but long enough to see the entrance to the French tunnel and the small museum there. Interestingly the part of the castle that housed the garrison is now a hostel. I suppose the jokes on whichever prisoner made up the "Hotel Colditz" poster.
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07-06-15, 06:43 AM | #149 |
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I just this morning finished watching the TV series once again, and I noticed in the credits that the camera man was A. A. Englander; unfortunately the sound man wasn't called Schweinhund...
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07-15-15, 03:46 AM | #150 |
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Colditz 3-D CGI model
Have a gander at this:
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