Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape. Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth Servicemen were held as Prisoners of War in Germany. Every Allied soldier under the rank of Sergeant was forced to work 12 hour shifts, six days a week, cutting timber, quarrying stone, carving ice from frozen rivers and clearing bombsites. It drove the soldiers to the brink, in which survival was a daily trial. Many starved to death or died from disease, others were killed in accidents or at the hands of their guards.
| ISBN: | 9781845295196 |
| Publication date: | 30th August 2007 |
| Author: | Sean Longden |
| Publisher: | Constable an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Genres: |
European history Second World War Modern warfare Prisoners of war |
Sean Londgen has conducted numerous interviews and reveals a new perspective on life under the Nazis that has long been forgotten and replaced by the myth of Colditz and The Great Escape. Between 1939 and 1945 almost 200,000 British and Commonwealth Servicemen were held as Prisoners of War in Germany. Every Allied soldier under the rank of Sergeant was forced to work 12 hour shifts, six days a week, cutting timber, quarrying stone, carving ice from frozen rivers and clearing bombsites. It drove the soldiers to the brink, in which survival was a daily trial. Many starved to death or died from disease, others were killed in accidents or at the hands of their guards.
Hitler's British Slaves features in the following genres: European history, Second World War, Modern warfare, Prisoners of war
Hitler's British Slaves is available in Paperback
Hitler's British Slaves was written by Sean Longden and published by Constable an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group
Hitler's British Slaves has 320 pages