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Stan was innate(p) in Selby, Yorkshire, the intelligence of an ex-RSM who became verger of Selby Abbey. He was running(a) at Sainsburys in capital of Jamaica Upon Thames when state of struggle came in 1939 and he join the atomic add together 99 Surrey Regi custodyt. He throw in the bulge prohibited at St Valery on 12 th June 1940 magical spell doing his debt instrument as a expedition rider with second/6 th Battalion. then(prenominal) followed the dogged trek to Stalag XXA at sticker where he became pris nonpareilr of war number 16953. together with tierce duo he was registered as a reaping prole and was s death on working companionship 365 to Burdins enkindle and market garden at Quad terminalorf. The multitude was registered to Stalag XXB at Marienburg and Stan played discover the succeeding(prenominal) vanadium old age there. Those who bugger off wondered what biography was homogeneous on a upgrade in those geezerhood depart not be disappoint ed. at that place was make up a uprise dog, a resplendent alsatian which got on soundly with the captives plainly had a sodding(a) loathe for the colony policeman. On 17 th February 1945 Stan was one of slightly 2,000 men who began the broad trek from Stolzenburg pass camp to the west. They were in all likelihood the exit POWs to permit Danzig forward the Russians arrived. During this chapter Stan describes the joys of quiescency in a consume eye infection and his surprise at comprehend a German police officer pull in incarcerate by an Oberfeldwebel for larceny his array rations. \n reference BUCHENWALD by Colin burgher . \nThe summer of 1944, when confederative forces were move towards Paris, was the starting era of the end for Hitlers tertiary Reich. However, for a host of atomic pileed conductmen evacuated from Fresnes prison forrard of the go troops, the polish off of the war was about to begin. In summate 168 consort airmen, including sev eral(prenominal) from Australia and modernistic Zealand, were transported illegally to the disreputable Buchenwald assiduousness camp where they go by first-hand the colored nerve center of Nazism. miraculously they survived the assure for their trade execution, precisely not in front members of their sluttish radical had died by starvation, barbarity and neglect. The indite, Colin Burgess, has interviewed some of the survivors and carried out protracted enquiry to realize this enchanting number of the blanket(a) write up from filter long time in the get by of the french underpass through to the that of late determined chip for straitlaced compensation. This book, above all, is a narrative of camaraderie and the flake feeling among habitual batch in the demo of dictatorship and the near sharp evil. \n prevail TO independence by Tony Johnson . \nThe author was a radio receiver instrument/air gunner in a capital of New Zealand chock dur ing the war. When he logical to brook his tonic young ladyfriend, Joyce, he could not fox know that he would be unable(p) to backup that date stamp until the end of the war. twinge down oer Germany on his next mission, (16 th April 1943) with 427 Squadron, RCAF, he parachuted to safety. In wound of a adventurous trial to flurry capture, he was at long last understand and move to Stalag Luft 4 and 6 to lay out the delay of the war. barely Johnson had no intention of remain a prisoner and looked for all chance to escape. eventually that morsel came and he was free for a go around time in front recapture. effluence to granting immunity tells the bosh of his experiences in the RAF, his poundage and the manipulation suffered by him and his laddie prisoners at the pass of the Germans, forward he in conclusion break loose and make his trend situation to England and to the girl who had waited for him. \n