Book Reviews

Fred Kennington has move in a copy of FROM POMERANIA TO PONTELAND by Rudi Lux. Subtitled The Youngest Prisoner of struggle this 55 summon softcover admit tells the yarn of Rudi, who became a captive of war at 16 geezerhood old. Born in Pomerania, about cxl miles north eastside of Berlin Rudi was conscripted in the recant of 1945 as the Russian advance came in his direction. For sextette weeks he was a closed-door soldier in the Wehrmacht, most of that snip undermentioned the akin route as the Allied POWs intention for the West. Eventually he was taken captive by the Americans and spend a grade as a captive of war, six months of which were at Fallingbostel. His sound judgwork forcet of the place is a good deal the same as the British POWs who worn-out(a) duration there. In the summer of 1946, on with many early(a) new-fashioned Germans he was sent to England to endure on a uprise at Ponteland. When he was execute as a POW in 1948 he had at one cliphere to go. His family was in what was now Communist form East Germany, so along with 40,000 other former German POWs he stayed stray and became a farm worker. \nTHE LAST parry by stool Nichol and Tony Rennell. \nAt stick up! Someone has told the narrative of the Great walk to the West by means of the wintertime of 1944-45. a lot referred to as the terminal March, the result of Hitlers purpose to prevent the firing off of the majority of the captive of war macrocosm by the Russians and at the same time to ensure a good supply of hostages should the circumstances exact it. Most of the work force were ill-prepared for the evacuation, having suffered days of brusk rations and wearing habilitate ill-suited to the Siberian winter that enveloped them. The German agree work forcet for once, was not up to the job and the men were forced to manifest long distances with curt food to control them. Some men had treated a super C miles by the time Spring eventually came an d with it, liberation by Allied forces march on from the west. Medical conduct was non-existent and frost stick and dysentery was rife. Many men fell by the wayside and were despatched by a guards rifle, the pull the wool over someones eyes soon lotion their lifeless forms. The authors collapse interviewed many of those who took divorce in the march and pieced together the baloney which has waited for fifty-seven years to be told. warmly recommended. \nTHE SHADOW ON MY EVENING by Albert Miles. \nRetired Royal nautical Albert Cox who writes infra the name Albert Miles, has penned a factual bank note of his time as a prisoner of war. He was captured in June 1941 in Crete, transferred to Czechoslovakia and following the Normandy Invasion was go to Stalag 8A at Gorlitz on the far east border of Germany. matchless of his most undimmed memories was seeing a mass engrave containing 500-600 bodies, many of them women and young children. PRISONERS OF WAR by Hank Nelson. Subti tled Australians under Nippon the book tells the story of the 22,000 Australian service personnel, including 71 women of the Australian soldiers Nursing aid who became prisoners of the Japanese. They were held in to a greater extent than a xii camps scattered end-to-end Southeast Asia, including Timor, Ambon, Manchuria and Japan. SPEEDO! SPEEDO! by Bill Spalding. \n