WIRE AND WALLS: RAF POWs in Spangenburg, Thorn, Lubeck and Warburg: 1939 - 1942

by Charles Rollings

This book, the product of 10 years research, traces the history of four of the notorious POW camps in used to intern captured allied aircrew in Spangenburg, Thorn, Lubeck and Warburg.For most of World War II these prisoners lived in conditions that directly contravened the Geneva Convention. They received no Red Cross food for months at a time, subsisting only on meager German rations, and were neglected by MI-9, the department of the War Office set up to foster escape and evasion.Wire and Walls is the previously untold full story of these forgotten who they were, how they were captured, and how they survived. Based on correspondence and interviews with hundreds of survivors, as well as unpublished diaries and manuscripts along with records from the Imperial War Museum, the Public Record office and the Bundesarchiv, the book also includes many illustrations and "shot down" stories which appear for the first time in this book.

Hardcover

First published July 1, 2002