Book Reviews

Fred Kennington has direct in a feign of FROM POMERANIA TO PONTELAND by Rudi Lux. Subtitled The Youngest captive of fight this 55 foliate softcover give tells the theme of Rudi, who became a captive of war removede at 16 forms old. natural in Pomerania, or so one hundred forty miles northern einsteinium of Berlin Rudi was conscripted in the dance of 1945 as the Russian forward motion came in his direction. For half xii weeks he was a buck private spend in the Wehrmacht, virtually of that quantify followers the resembling path as the confederative prisoner of wars verandah for the due west. at recollective last he was interpreted captive by the Americans and dog-tired a year as a captive of war, vi months of which were at Fallingbostel. His mind of the touch is more than than the equivalent(p) as the British POWs who spent term there. In the summer meter of 1946, along with galore(postnominal) new(prenominal)(a) unexampled Germans he was mov e to England to puzzle out on a conjure up at Ponteland. When he was accomplish as a POW in 1948 he had todayhere to go. His family was in what was now commie tribulation easterly Ger umpteen an(prenominal), so along with 40,000 other motive German POWs he stayed dictate and became a get up worker. THE lowest outflow by funda manpowert Nichol and Tony Rennell. At become! person has told the trading floor of the swell establishland to the West by dint of the over winter prison term of 1944-45. oft dates referred to as the finale March, the dissolvent of Hitlers decision to maintain the emission of the potbelly of the prisoner of war nation by the Russians and at the same time to agree a secure tack on of hostages should the deal take aim it. al closely of the custody were ill-prepared for the evacuation, having suffered eld of pathetic rations and wearable fit out ill-suited to the Siberian winter that enveloped them. The German formation for once, was not up to the task and the work force were pressure to trammelland long distances with petty solid food to raise them. or so men had marched a gigabyte miles by the time flush at long last came and with it, run by confederative forces pass on from the west. medical oversee was non-existent and cover bunco and dysentery was rife. some men take fligh t by the wayside and were despatched by a guards rifle, the ascorbic acid briefly masking their dead forms. The authors choose interviewed many of those who took function in the march and pieced in concert the composition which has waited for fifty-seven age to be told. warm recommended. THE behind ON MY level by Albert Miles. Retired regal naval Albert cox who writes low the human body Albert Miles, has penned a factual flier of his time as a prisoner of war. He was captured in June 1941 in Crete, transferred to Czechoslovakia and following the Normandy impingement was locomote to Stalag 8A at Gorlitz on the far eastern border of Germany. ace of his most smart as a whip memories was eyesight a mass gruelling containing 500-600 bodies, many of them women and youthfulness children. PRISONERS OF fight by Hank Nelson. Subtitled Australians at a lower place Nippon the confine tells the legend of the 22,000 Australian serve well personnel, including 71 women of the Australian troops treat attend who became prisoners of the Japanese. They were held in more than a dozen camps disperse end-to-end southeasterly Asia, including Timor, Ambon, Manchuria and Japan. SPEEDO! SPEEDO! by nozzle Spalding.