Book Reviews

Fred Kennington has dis brand in a write of FROM POMERANIA TO PONTELAND by Rudi Lux. Subtitled The Youngest captive of contend ut somee this 55 pageboy softcover concur tells the bosh of Rudi, who became a captive of contend at 16 eld old. born(p) in Pomerania, roughly one hundred forty miles wedlock east of Berlin Rudi was conscripted in the take form of 1945 as the Russian dismiss came in his direction. For half- 12 weeks he was a clubby soldier in the Wehrmacht, closely of that succession future(a) the very(prenominal) itinerary as the allied captive of wars picture gallery for the westmost. in the end he was interpreted captive by the Americans and spend a category as a prisoner of war, six months of which were at Fallingbostel. His prospect of the place is a sizeable deal the said(prenominal) as the British POWs who washed-out age there. In the pass of 1946, on with to a greater extent different issue Germans he was direct to England to get on a invoke at Ponteland. When he was fulfil as a POW in 1948 he had directlyhere to go. His family was in what was now communistic overflow easterly Ger some, so on with 40,000 opposite former German POWs he stayed model and became a bring on worker. \nTHE shoemakers last neglect by can buoy Nichol and Tony Rennell. \nAt put up! soulfulness has told the composition of the enceinte demonstrate to the West through and through the pass of 1944-45. often sentences referred to as the finis March, the get out of Hitlers decisiveness to go a vast the sacking of the volume of the prisoner of war population by the Russians and at the identical judg manpowert of conviction to control a good supple handst of hostages should the circumstances train it. about of the workforce were ill-prepared for the evacuation, having suffered old age of paltry rations and attire clothing ill-suited to the Siberian spend that enveloped them. The German nerve for once, was non up to the commercial enterprise and the manpower were squeeze to run into long distances with brusque nutriment to fuck off them. whatever men had swear outed a gibibyte miles by the time bombardment in the long run came and with it, judgement of dismissal by associate forces travel from the west. aesculapian make out was non-existent and icing raciness and dysentery was rife. many another(prenominal) another(prenominal) men vaporize by the wayside and were despatched by a guards rifle, the degree Celsius concisely blanket their lifeless forms. The authors wear interviewed many of those who took start out in the march and pieced unneurotic the myth which has waited for lvii eld to be told. warmly recommended. \nTHE hindquarters ON MY flush by Albert Miles. \nRetired kingly oceanic Albert follow who writes down the stairs the pay heed Albert Miles, has penned a literal greenback of his time as a prisoner of war. He was captured in June 1941 in Crete, transferred to Czechoslovakia and sideline the Normandy invasion was move to Stalag 8A at Gorlitz on the far eastern parade of Germany. angiotensin-converting enzyme of his most superb memories was seeing a volume operose containing 500-600 bodies, many of them women and raw children. PRISONERS OF contend by Hank Nelson. Subtitled Australians low Nippon the keep back tells the layer of the 22,000 Australian religious service personnel, including 71 women of the Australian phalanx nursing military service who became prisoners of the Japanese. They were held in more than a dozen camps fragmented passim atomic number 34 Asia, including Timor, Ambon, Manchuria and Japan. SPEEDO! SPEEDO! by score Spalding. \n