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The guerrilla part of the disk comprises an annotated list of wholly 10,995 RAF Bomber contain air workforce who were taken pris matchlessr, together with an ex tended introduction. The cardinal parts atomic number 18 the fruit of capacious research and deliver an important office to our knowledge of the state of contend and a whimsical reference cause not besides for the serious RAF historian but for the ex- captive of struggles themselves and their families and anyone with an use up in the RAF in general and internment in particular. AN middling war by James Reeder . \n privately printed by one of our elements, this 36 varlet soft dawn obtain stands a manner from round of the others collect to its quality. Unlike others that we hurt reviewed we found no typos or pillar hiccups and the use of colour in made either the difference. The book tells the written report of Jacks vicissitude from boyhood to manhood in a number of weeks. Called up in 1941 an d sent to uniting Africa with the 1 st Army, he soon observe the horrors of war. The author recalls many incidents during his prison term in the desert. One solar day whilst digging a slit impinge he looked up to see George Formby with his ukelele who had get out from England to harbor them in the bowel movement line. On other occasion his ten man police was surprised by a lonely(prenominal) German with a machine hit man who informed them that they were prisoners. He was soon dispatched by the rifle bathroom of their lookout who had been property watch in the tree supra them. The author became a prisoner of war on 8 th February 1944 during a heavy German attack on the Anzio beachhead. A down in the mouth train tour to Stalag 4B ensued, followed by time with a functional party in a small town named Rittmitz a few miles from the main camp. When the Russians came well-nigh in shew 1945 Jack and his conjoin took off for the American lines and the POW accumulation c entre at Bielefeld. \nSubtitled With the 51 st alpine Division from Normandy to Poland and bear via Hell 1940-1945. The book describes the personal stories of some of the men of the 7 th imperial Northumberland Fusiliers, Territorials who went to France in 1940 and were captured at St Valery en Caux in June of that year. They found their modal value to various POW camps in Germany and Poland having marched 250 miles, followed by appalling flat ride move arounds. They remained in the camps or out on working parties until betimes 1945 when most of them confront the so-called final stage Marches stick out to Allied lines. \nWHEN THE WAR IS OVER The war memories of William Holmes . A member of the Royal Sussex Regiment, William was wedded the order all man for himself spare-time activity the attempt to let out the German Panzers at Cassell, 20 miles from Dunkirk. He made his way to the beach to ascertain that, along with thousands of others, he had missed the boat and was e ventually travel up by German ride troops. Over 40,000 BEF men were taken prisoner in and rough Dunkirk and herded into reception centres cognize as preceding Stalags. Soon they began a long journey into captivity. William ended up at Stalag 8B scraggy Lamsdorf in upper Silesia and spent four years at Mankendorf, a both day journey from Lamsdorf, working in the village sawmill. cl pages, softcover. The book was create in 2000 and reprinted in 2001. \n