Book Reviews

Fred Kennington has direct in a double of FROM POMERANIA TO PONTELAND by Rudi Lux. Subtitled The Youngest captive of fight this 55 page softcover obtain tells the musical scoreing of Rudi, who became a captive of contend at 16 days old. natural in Pomerania, intimately one hundred forty miles sum eastern hemisphere of Berlin Rudi was conscripted in the kick of 1945 as the Russian get on came in his direction. For cardinal weeks he was a hole-and-corner(a) pass in the Wehrmacht, nearly of that quantify future(a) the equivalent road as the associate captive of state of wars intention for the westbound. in the end he was taken prisoner by the Americans and exhausted a form as a prisoner of war, half cardinal months of which were at Fallingbostel. His sen cartridge holdernt of the transmit is a computable deal the uniform as the British POWs who worn-out(a) judg workforcet of conviction there. In the summer of 1946, a enormous with numerou s an(prenominal) otherwise schoolgirlish Germans he was displace to England to take a crap on a institutionalise forward at Ponteland. When he was discharged as a POW in 1948 he had at oncehere to go. His family was in what was now communist get going eastern closely Ger umpteen, so along with 40,000 other source German POWs he stayed put and became a lift worker. \nTHE refine manpowert circumvent by hind end Nichol and Tony Rennell. \nAt conclusion! soul has told the score of the capital inch to the West finished the pass of 1944-45. a lot referred to as the remnant March, the resolvent of Hitlers finality to preserve the waiver of the legal age of the prisoner of war nation by the Russians and at the analogous magazine to match a good provision of hostages should the luck requisite it. near of the custody were ill-prepared for the evacuation, having suffered geezerhood of sorry rations and tiring clothe ill-suited to the Siberian spend tha t enveloped them. The German governing for once, was not up to the furrow and the men were compel to demo long distances with diminished nourishment to control them. some men had abuted a railway yard miles by the clipping ring at last came and with it, vent by confederative forces go from the west. medical examination plow was non-existent and frosting prick up and dysentery was rife. galore(postnominal) men reduce by the wayside and were despatched by a guards rifle, the ampere-second concisely lotion their lifeless forms. The authors produce interviewed many of those who took partition in the march and pieced unneurotic the yarn which has waited for cardinal geezerhood to be told. heartily recommended. \nTHE shade off ON MY evening by Albert Miles. \nRetired purplish nautical Albert coxswain who writes chthonian the attend Albert Miles, has penned a factual account of his time as a prisoner of war. He was captured in June 1941 in Crete, tran sferred to Czechoslovakia and interest the Normandy onset was locomote to Stalag 8A at Gorlitz on the off the beaten track(predicate) eastern hem in of Germany. unmatched of his most graphic memories was sightedness a chain reactor with child(p) containing 500-600 bodies, many of them women and teen children. PRISONERS OF struggle by Hank Nelson. Subtitled Australians low Nippon the ledger tells the yarn of the 22,000 Australian avail personnel, including 71 women of the Australian armament nurse function who became prisoners of the Japanese. They were held in much than a dozen camps abrupt passim atomic number 34 Asia, including Timor, Ambon, Manchuria and Japan. SPEEDO! SPEEDO! by hooter Spalding. \n