The Stalag Men
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1982. This is the moving, down-to earth story of one of the 110,000 Other Ranks of the British Army who were prisoners-of-war of the Germans during the 1939-45 war. The day-to-day life on working-parties and in holding camps is described with frank realism by a well-known journalist and author who was there. Donald Edgar was a sergeant in a Territorial Army infantry battalion, attached to the 51st. Highland Division which was forced to surrender at St. Valery in Normandy on 12 June, 1940. He always wanted to write a book about his five years as a P.O.W. because although there were bad times of hunger and privation he discovered himself as he worked and lived with the 'Other Ranks' of the British people and learned to admire their courage, endurance and sense of humour and to share their comradeship. Edgar was on working-parties in Poland, clearing building sites and digging a canal. In Silesia he worked in the forests and did some farm-work. In the mountains of Czechoslovakia he spent some months in a paper factory. With a gift for languages he talked to Poles, Czechs, French, to German civilians and to the German guards. He studied the German press and was able to glean much by reading 'between the lines'. He saw the Germans exulting in their days of victory when Europe was at their feet; watched the build-up of the Armies which were to invade Russia; had first-hand experience of the Communist and Roman Catholic resistance to Hitler; witnessed the Russian prisoners dying in droves from starvation; and when Stalingrad fell observed the shadows falling on the German people as they sensed the victory of Slav over Teuton. Very good dj. Not clipped. Tanning in the page margins, but no other marks or damage.
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