Dimensions
163 x 244 x 43mm
By June 1944, hundreds of thousands of British and American soldiers and airmen were prisoners of war in camps across Nazi Germany. The war was reaching its endgame. On the Eastern Front the Red Army was advancing, the front line was moving through Poland and towards the border with Germany. And in the west, British and American troops were storming the beaches of northern France.
News of the D-Day landings, heard on secret camp radios, filled the prisoners with hope, but their joy turned into foreboding as their captors reacted to the threat. Many POWs feared they would be killed by the retreating German armies rather than allowed to fall into the hands of the Russians. Instead, in the depths of winter, their guards forced them to march out of the camps and further into Germany, away from their would-be liberators.
How they escaped with their lives and eventually reached home is a gripping story of endurance and courage.
