Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War in Germany 1939 - 1945
- ISBN-10
- 1909166308
- ISBN-13
- 9781909166301
- Series
- Footprints on the Sands of Time
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 512
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-08-19
- Publisher
- Grub Street Publishing
- Author
- Oliver Clutton-Brock
Description
This extensive book is divided into two parts. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps - capture, escape, illness, and murder - and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every twenty captured airmen never returned home. The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war's end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs. The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10,995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction. The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
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