Ian Sanders
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I recently had a spending spree with "Amazon" and bought the following titles:-
The Great Escape by Anton Gill
(The full dramatic story of the escape from Stalag Luft III with contributions from survivors and their families)
Capturing Enigma by Stephen Harper
(How the destroyer HMS Petard attacked a German U-boat U-559 in the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1942 and seized the secret Enigma coding material thus enabling Bletchley Parks codebreakers to crack them)
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
(In August 1914 four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny village of Villeret. Living in daily fear of capture and execution, they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the baker and his wife, and the local matriarch Madame Dessenne. One of the soldiers falls in love with the result that a child is born. The child is just six months old when they are betrayed to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies, and shot by a firing squad)
Colditz by Henry Chancellor
(For the first time "Colditz" contains the prisoners own story. Using seventy-six original interviews, the English, French, Dutch and Polish officers and their guards describe their experiences. Many have never spoken before)
The Real Bravo Two Zero by Michael Asher.
(Michael Asher went to Iraq to investigate what really happened. The story he reveals is very different. There was great bravery and dedication - on both sides and none more so than Sergeant Vince Phillips, whose body lies in an unmarked grave in the desert)
The Trench by Richard van Emden
(This book was written to accompany the series shown on BBC television where the experiences of trench warfare in 1916 were experienced by present day "recruits")
I hope to review these books as I complete them.
Ian
The Great Escape by Anton Gill
(The full dramatic story of the escape from Stalag Luft III with contributions from survivors and their families)
Capturing Enigma by Stephen Harper
(How the destroyer HMS Petard attacked a German U-boat U-559 in the Eastern Mediterranean in October 1942 and seized the secret Enigma coding material thus enabling Bletchley Parks codebreakers to crack them)
A Foreign Field by Ben Macintyre
(In August 1914 four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny village of Villeret. Living in daily fear of capture and execution, they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the baker and his wife, and the local matriarch Madame Dessenne. One of the soldiers falls in love with the result that a child is born. The child is just six months old when they are betrayed to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies, and shot by a firing squad)
Colditz by Henry Chancellor
(For the first time "Colditz" contains the prisoners own story. Using seventy-six original interviews, the English, French, Dutch and Polish officers and their guards describe their experiences. Many have never spoken before)
The Real Bravo Two Zero by Michael Asher.
(Michael Asher went to Iraq to investigate what really happened. The story he reveals is very different. There was great bravery and dedication - on both sides and none more so than Sergeant Vince Phillips, whose body lies in an unmarked grave in the desert)
The Trench by Richard van Emden
(This book was written to accompany the series shown on BBC television where the experiences of trench warfare in 1916 were experienced by present day "recruits")
I hope to review these books as I complete them.
Ian
