Wire and Worse: v.2: RAF Prisoners of War in Laufen, Bibarach, Lubeck and Warburg 1940-42: Vol 2 Book

Following on from his earlier book, the well-received Wires and Walls: RAF Prisoners of War in Itzehoe, Spangenburg and Thorn 1939-1942, Wire and Worse provides for the first time a detailed account of the history of RAF PoWs during this crucial phase of the war at some of the most infamous PoW camps in Germany. Based upon correspondence with survivors, as well as unpublished diaries and manuscripts, the book includes a fascinating selection of contemporary illustrations that graphically portray the reality of life as a PoW during World War 2. As the course of the war swung against the Allies, following the defeat in France and Western Europe and as the RAF sought to take the aerial war to the heart of the Third Reich, so the number of RAF PoWs increased dramatically ? a facet brought dramatically to life in this absorbing account of the period. Comprehensive and highly detailed, no historian of the RAF during World War 2 can afford to ignore this titleRead More