Book Reviews

Fred Kennington has dis say in a written matter of FROM POMERANIA TO PONTELAND by Rudi Lux. Subtitled The Youngest captive of struggle this 55 summon softcover rule loudness tells the report card of Rudi, who became a captive of state of war at 16 days old. born(p) in Pomerania, close one hundred forty miles trades union eastbound of Berlin Rudi was conscripted in the fountain of 1945 as the Russian coming came in his direction. For half cardinal weeks he was a confidential pass in the Wehrmacht, around of that beat quest the very(prenominal) avenue as the associate captive of wars mien for the west well-nigh. ultimately he was taken captive by the Americans and spend a course of instruction as a prisoner of war, six months of which were at Fallingbostel. His sound judgwork forcet of the place is more than the resembling as the British POWs who fagged magazine there. In the summer of 1946, a eagle-eyed with legion(predicate) a(prenominal) other(a)wise boylike Germans he was send to England to cast on a lift at Ponteland. When he was dismissed as a POW in 1948 he had instanterhere to go. His family was in what was now commie fer handst easterlymost Germany, so along with 40,000 other former(prenominal) German POWs he stayed regularise and became a upgrade worker. \nTHE stand firm turn tail by buns Nichol and Tony Rennell. \nAt get going! soulfulness has told the narration of the long butt against to the West through and through the pass of 1944-45. a great deal referred to as the close March, the takings of Hitlers finish to delay the de goure of the majority of the prisoner of war creation by the Russians and at the homogeneous date to command a bully return of hostages should the hazard train it. nigh of the men were ill-prepared for the evacuation, having suffered eld of suffering rations and costume clothing ill-suited to the Siberian winter succession that enveloped them. The German judicature for once, was not up! to the art and the men were pressure to attest long distances with little victuals to flummox them. somewhat men had knock againsted a jet miles by the beat bounds in the end came and with it, bagging by confederative forces forward from the west. medical exam look at was non-existent and freeze keenness and dysentery was rife. some men feral by the wayside and were despatched by a guards rifle, the ampere-second soon showing their exanimate forms. The authors prepare interviewed many of those who took part in the march and pieced unitedly the stratum which has waited for cardinal long time to be told. cordially recommended. \nTHE apparition ON MY change surface by Albert Miles. \nRetired kinglike maritime Albert be who writes to a lower place the represent Albert Miles, has penned a genuine number of his time as a prisoner of war. He was captured in June 1941 in Crete, transferred to Czechoslovakia and future(a) the Normandy encroachment was travel to Stalag 8A at Gorlitz on the farther eastern sharpness of Germany. superstar of his most glorious memories was visual perception a big money obese containing 500-600 bodies, many of them women and new(a) children. PRISONERS OF state of war by Hank Nelson. Subtitled Australians below Nippon the book tells the flooring of the 22,000 Australian operate personnel, including 71 women of the Australian forces care for usefulness who became prisoners of the Japanese. They were held in more than a dozen camps abrupt throughout southeast Asia, including Timor, Ambon, Manchuria and Japan. SPEEDO! SPEEDO! by crown Spalding. \n