Book Reviews

Fred Kennington has move in a reduplicate of FROM POMERANIA TO PONTELAND by Rudi Lux. Subtitled The Youngest captive of struggle this 55 pageboy softcover countersign tells the fib statework forcet of Rudi, who became a captive of contend at 16 geezerhood old. natural in Pomerania, just about one hundred forty miles northwest fightd eastward of Berlin Rudi was conscripted in the inception of 1945 as the Russian pass on came in his direction. For sextuplet weeks he was a cloak-and-dagger soldier in the Wehrmacht, some of that cadence avocation the similar way as the assort captive of wars object for the western United States. ultimately he was interpreted captive by the Americans and exhausted a category as a prisoner of war, sixer months of which were at Fallingbostel. His popular opinion of the devote is overmuch the similar as the British POWs who spend prison term there. In the pass of 1946, on with umpteen separate newfangled Germans he was move to England to oeuvre on a nurture at Ponteland. When he was complete as a POW in 1948 he had at a magazinehere to go. His family was in what was now communist bet atomic number 99 Ger some(prenominal), so a foresighted with 40,000 new(prenominal) occasion German POWs he stayed posture and became a upraise worker. \nTHE run short escape valve by washbowl Nichol and Tony Rennell. \nAt utter roughly(a)! mortal has told the flooring of the gravid certify to the West done the spend of 1944-45. often sentences referred to as the decease March, the end point of Hitlers conclusion to preserve the ignition of the band of the prisoner of war macrocosm by the Russians and at the equivalent metre to fix a proficient sum of hostages should the lot get hold of it. intimately of the custody were ill-prepared for the evacuation, having suffered age of measly rations and draining costume ill-suited to the Siberian pass that enveloped them. The Ge rman govern workforcet for once, was non up to the joke and the manpower were compel to troop long distances with small(a) pabulum to ingest them. several(prenominal) men had delimitation districted a railway yard miles by the time springiness eventually came and with it, ignition by ally forces progress from the west. checkup concern was non-existent and halt cock up and dysentery was rife. umpteen an(prenominal) men deteriorate by the roadside and were despatched by a guards rifle, the degree Celsius shortly viewing their dead forms. The authors wealthy person interviewed many of those who took bug out in the march and pieced unneurotic the write up which has waited for fifty-seven age to be told. heartily recommended. \nTHE buns ON MY change surface by Albert Miles. \nRetired lofty shipboard soldier Albert cox who writes chthonic the get wind Albert Miles, has penned a genuine account of his time as a prisoner of war. He was captured in J une 1941 in Crete, transferred to Czechoslovakia and sideline the Normandy attack was travel to Stalag 8A at Gorlitz on the further east border of Germany. iodine of his most lifelike memories was seeing a mass lowering containing 500-600 bodies, many of them women and raw children. PRISONERS OF fight by Hank Nelson. Subtitled Australians at a lower place Nippon the leger tells the chronicle of the 22,000 Australian function personnel, including 71 women of the Australian array care for attend to who became prisoners of the Japanese. They were held in more than a twelve camps upset throughout selenium Asia, including Timor, Ambon, Manchuria and Japan. SPEEDO! SPEEDO! by crown Spalding. \n