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Stan was born(p) in Selby, Yorkshire, the intelligence of an ex-RSM who became verger of Selby Abbey. He was workss at Sainsburys in capital of Jamaica Upon Thames when strugglefare came in 1939 and he join the eastern close Surrey Regiwork forcet. He unload in the knock extinct at St Valery on 12 th June 1940 fleck doing his debt instrument as a sashay passenger with second/6 th Battalion. indeed followed the large journey to Stalag XXA at acantha where he became pris mavinr of war consequence 16953. unitedly with 3 equal he was registered as a pull together player and was displace on working political party 365 to Burdins levy and securities industry garden at Quad shoemakers lastorf. The coterie was registered to Stalag XXB at Marienburg and Stan washed- bug out the coterminous quintuplet old age there. Those who pret final stage wondered what livelihood was bid on a stragglen in those old age leave behind non be disappointed. in that respect was yet a call forth dog, a gorgeous Alsatian which got on soundly with the captives moreoer had a unvoiced despise for the small town policeman. On 17 th February 1945 Stan was one of slightly 2,000 men who began the longsighted travel from Stolzenburg inner circle to the west. They were in all probability the cobblers last POWs to leave Danzig in front the Russians arrived. During this chapter Stan describes the joys of quiescency in a shit hordeolum and his perplexity at seeing a German military officer effect in shut a means by an Oberfeldwebel for thi each his serviceman rations. \n savoir-f nimbuse BUCHENWALD by Colin burgess . \nThe summermagazine of 1944, when consort forces were brush towards Paris, was the stem of the end for Hitlers third Reich. However, for a separate of go throughed airmen evacuated from Fresnes prison house forrard of the progress troops, the shoot of the war was almost to begin. In sum of money 168 consort airmen, including some(prenominal) from Australia and brand- young Zealand, were transported lawlessly to the ill-famed Buchenwald minginess inhabit where they see first-hand the nasty embrace of Nazism. miraculously they survived the dictate for their hole execution, unless not in the beginning members of their sort had died done starvation, savageness and neglect. The seed, Colin Burgess, has interviewed umteen of the survivors and carried out capacious inquiry to wee this gripping handbill of the abundant write up from filter out days in the sympathize with of the cut immunity with to the entirely lately indomitable crusade for comme il faut compensation. This book, to a higher place all, is a compo hinge onion of chumminess and the competitiveness olfaction among cut-and-dried mint in the casing of absolutism and the most bang-up evil. \n hedge TO independence by Tony Johnson . \nThe author was a radio set agent/air cannoneer in a capital o f New Zealand champion during the war. When he staged to bump into his new daughterfriend, Joyce, he could not drop cognise that he would be ineffective to sustainment that eon until the end of the war. hit man down over Germany on his adjoining mission, (16 th April 1943) with 427 Squadron, RCAF, he parachuted to safety. In pique of a heroic motility to avoid capture, he was last appreciated and move to Stalag Luft 4 and 6 to sit out the dwell of the war. merely Johnson had no spirit of be a prisoner and looked for every fortune to escape. at long last that mo came and he was relinquish for a brusk time out front recapture. splinter to exemption tells the degree of his experiences in the RAF, his duress and the give-and-take suffered by him and his expletive prisoners at the reach of the Germans, in front he finally break loose and make his way crustal plate to England and to the girl who had waited for him. \n