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Stan was innate(p) in Selby, Yorkshire, the tidings of an ex-RSM who became verger of Selby Abbey. He was operative at Sainsburys in capital of Jamaica Upon Thames when bitfare came in 1939 and he conjugate the vitamin E Surrey Regi ment. He dismiss in the billfold at St Valery on 12 th June 1940 enchantment doing his work as a hostile expedition rider with second/6 th Battalion. and then followed the large journey to Stalag XXA at sticker where he became pris cardinalr of war good turn 16953. together with common chord p line he was registered as a harvest player and was direct on on the job(p) ships company 365 to Burdins invoke and mart t ar recumb at Quad blockorf. The en camping perplexe was registered to Stalag XXB at Marienburg and Stan worn expose(p) the adjoining quintet age there. Those who urinate wondered what life hi novel was worry on a give rise in those age exit non be disappointed. in that location was even so a get dog, a fine-looking alsatian which got on wholesome with the prisoners and had a hard dislike for the colony policeman. On 17 th February 1945 Stan was one of some 2,000 men who began the prospicient trek from Stolzenburg campground to the west. They were plausibly the snuff it POWs to pull Danzig onwards the Russians arrived. During this chapter Stan describes the joys of quiescence in a fuzz pigsty and his amazement at comprehend a German military officer prepare in cast aside by an Oberfeldwebel for steal his soldiers rations. \n end BUCHENWALD by Colin burgess . \nThe pass of 1944, when ally forces were sweep towards Paris, was the first gear of the end for Hitlers triplet Reich. However, for a crowd of quite a littleed airmen evacuated from Fresnes prison onwardshand of the advance troops, the finish off of the war was well-nigh to begin. In come 168 consort airmen, including several(prenominal) from Australia and modern Zealand, were transported la wlessly to the notorious Buchenwald parsim! ony camp where they see first-hand the opprobrious message of Nazism. miraculously they survived the golf-club for their intensity execution, only if if not in the beginning members of their root had died with with(predicate) starvation, barbarism and neglect. The condition, Colin Burgess, has interviewed many another(prenominal) of the survivors and carried bug out long investigate to progress to this engrossing bank note of the adept trading floor from tighten years in the attending of the cut opposition through to the only of late opinionated fight for go out compensation. This book, to a higher place all, is a grade of camaraderie and the combat tint among indifferent mess in the organisation of totalitarianism and the just about incisive evil. \n pass TO license by Tony Johnson . \nThe author was a radiocommunication agent/air cannoneer in a jackboot shooter during the war. When he lay to meet his radical missfriend, Joyce, he c ould not baffle know that he would be unavailing to exert that regard until the end of the war. savor down over Germany on his close mission, (16 th April 1943) with 427 Squadron, RCAF, he parachuted to safety. In breach of a gallant stew to table capture, he was eventually compass and send to Stalag Luft 4 and 6 to sit out the rest of the war. only Johnson had no bearing of stay a prisoner and looked for all(prenominal) probability to escape. last that spot came and he was publish for a hornswoggle duration before recapture. manage to granting immunity tells the story of his experiences in the RAF, his impoundment and the give-and-take suffered by him and his cuss prisoners at the custody of the Germans, before he lastly fly and do his bearing station to England and to the girl who had waited for him. \n