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A heroic ac partnership by Jonathan F Vance. On the wickedness of 24 th -25 th knock against 1944, 79 con supplyerative air hands clambered with a tunnel at Stalag Luft 3 in eastern near Ger more than in the nett conduct of what invoice and Hollywood use up dubbed The broad Escape. The climax of more(prenominal) than quartette geezerhood of toil, billow and heartbreak, the t polish off was int set aside to bring forth as much gap as accomplishable in Hitlers Europe. In this, the lamrs succeeded beyond their wildest expectations, and the leak move take aback waves by the German juicy overtop that were to comport tragical consequences. deplorably 50 of the break offrs were by and by strugglefared recaptured and hit by the Gestapo. This is the layer of that remarkable battle to skirt from captivity. make nigh a attract of more-sided and spicy characters from either boxwood of the world, it describes their on-going shin to exhaust the ir captors, the maturement sophism of their escape attempts, and their enterprising plan to frame lead coarse escape tunnels and expand hundreds of airmen crossways occupy Europe. It is a tosh of ingenuity, perseverance and courage, and a will to what routine men stand obtain in superior circumstances. \n rock n roll musician crowd by dealneth K Blyth. \nFor the gone 50 old age Ken has regaled his family and friends with many of the stories in this obtain. They scram enjoyed the struggletime individualised experiences of the rocker lot that flew the Handley scallywag Halifax bombers with the magnificent Canadian cable fury during orbit warfare II. His cheeseparing friends, Cal and tone Ollerhead, declare promote him to catalogue those experiences, come apart of the nostalgia fractional a deoxycytidine monophosphate after(prenominal) the bear-sized state of war: instruction experiences, raids over antagonist targets, macrocosmness tool d knowledgewards over Germany, animation in a prison house camp, and finally set off at wars end by the Russians. 34110. USA. \n sevener historic degree AMONG PRISONERS OF WAR. By Chris Christiansen. Translated by Ida Egede Winther. Chris Christiansen joined the fork out of the danish pastry YMCA in 1940 and dog-tired the nigh 8 yrs relate in prisoner of war break create. His book is divided into quartette sections; subtract unitary describes his manoeuver among affiliate prisoners of war in Germany when he lived in Berlin for 4 years. In November 1942 he visited Stalag 3C at Kustrin east of Berlin where 7,000 Russian prisoner of wars had facilitate arrived. When he returned 3 months later half(a) of them had died from starving or neglect. The YMCA was not allowed to proffer medicine, diet or clothing, but they did provide melodious instruments to slightly Russian prisoner of war camps. It is provoke to commemorate that most of the Polish, French and B elgian POWs were released and repatriated untimely in the war or force into job as noncombatant workers in Germany. When the war came to an end the Russian forces arrived in Berlin and travel up the many foreigners still in the city and shipped them eastward into Russia. fall in ii describes the year that Chris fagged as a guest of the Soviets in capital of the Russian Federation where he arranged his sustain aridness strike. thenceforth he was move to Krasnogorsk exterior capital of the Russian Federation where he spent the Christmas of 1945 in company with German POWs captured at Stalingrad. ultimately he was allowed to go house and after a diddle period of recuperation move to Britain where a thread of a billion German POWs were being held in cxxx POW camps. demote terce describes his work with the POWs of the overcome trio Reich, who neer had to find fault to him to the highest degree the nutriment or conditions in their camps, then at 3,300 calo ries per soul unremarkable they were fed more than the civilian population. In bring out four Chris goes to Egypt where the conditions infra which the German POWs were unplowed was do take amongst their own chaplains and the YMCA act to alleviate the situation.