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1) The Long Road: Trials and Tribulations of Airmen Prisoners from Bankau to Berlin, June 1944–May 1945
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A history of the airmen imprisoned in Nazi Germany's largest World War II prisoner-of-war camp, the notorious Stalag Luft 7.
This book is firstly a testament to those of many nationalities who found themselves imprisoned at Stalag Luft VII, Bankau (Luft 7 for short) in Upper Silesia, the Luftwaffe's last prisoner of war camp. Having survived the trauma of action against, and capture by, the enemy, some as far back as 1940, they came from France,...
2) RAF Evaders: The Complete Story of RAF Escapees and their Escape Lines, Western Europe, 1940–1945
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Stories of the British airmen shot down over Western Europe who evaded capture by the Germans and made their way to Allied territory during World War II.
During the five years from May 1940 to May 1945 several thousand Allied airmen, forced to abandon their aircraft behind enemy lines, evaded capture and reached freedom, by land, sea and air.
The territory held by the Germans was immense-from Norway and Denmark in the north, through Holland,...
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The author of RAF Evaders provides a comprehensive reference of the airmen of Bomber Command who were held in German captivity during WWII.
This extensive book is divided into two part. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps-capture, escape, illness, and murder-and...
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