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Rollings, C, - PRISONER OF WAR - Voices from Captivity during the Second World War.
Ebury Press, London, ND (circa 2008), 2nd impr., vii, 392pp, half tone photo ills. in text, maps at endpapers, black cloth lettered in ssilver at spine, pictorial montage dustwrapper, extracts from written accounts of life as a prisoner of war held by the Imperial War Mueum, and from interviews and the correspondence, diaries and unpublished manuscripts of many returned prisoners and/or their next of kin of those who didn't, from the Public Record Office and froim USAF Academy Library, setting out their experiences in sections describing: Capture, Transit and Interrogation, Imprisonmenty, Daily Survival, Fod, drink, clothes andn Tobacco, Work, Contact, Health, Education and Entertainment, Escape, Pimishment and Reprisals, Evacuation and Liberatioin, Repatriation, and After the War,. The latter section poignantly concludes with an account of how the British government withheld one third of an officer POW's pay, taxed them on it and then lost all record of what the returned POWs should have been paid, edges tanned, lightly bumped at tips, dustwrapper: price clipped, a little sunned at edges, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 20.03 | JP¥ 3121] Booknumber: 45549
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GBP 16.00 [Appr.: EURO 18.75 US$ 20.03 | JP¥ 3121] Booknumber: 45549
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