Tag: Prisoners of War
Break Out Gear – Five Improvised Gadgets That Helped Allied POWs Escape the Nazis
Published Date: 19 August, 2015
“Each item helped the fugitives survive on the run inside Nazi Occupied Europe.” By Dr. Mark Felton AT OFLAG VI B Warburg POW camp in Germany on Aug. 30, 1942, 40 British, Australian and New Zealand…
Dispatches From Hell – Diary Excerpts From Six Survivors of World War One
Published Date: 13 July, 2015
COMMITMENT AND SACRIFICE, a new book from Oxford University Press could fairly be described as ‘history’s first draft’. Edited by historians Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee, the 350-pager is a collection of original diary entries…