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In Presence of My Foes : From Calais to Colditz via the Polish Underground - The Travels and Travails of a POW
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies-Scourfield, Gris.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davies-Scourfield, Gris, 1918-.
- Davies-Scourfield, Gris.
- Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany).
- Davies-Scourfield, Gris, 1918.
- Prisoners of war--Germany--Biography.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Local Subjects:
- Davies-Scourfield, Gris, 1918.
- Prisoners of war--Germany--Biography.
- Schloss Colditz (Colditz, Germany).
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (378 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley : Pen and Sword, 2005.
- Summary:
- This is a wartime escape memoir that ranks with the finest. Seriously wounded and captured at Calais, the Author recovered to escape from his POW camp in a load of rubbish. He was on the run thanks to the Polish Underground for nine months and was recaptured within sight of the Swiss border. Interrogation by the Gestapo failed to break him - his greatest fear was that he would betray his friends. Sent to Colditz he again escaped only to be recaptured, due to a minor misspelling on his documents.
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 - SOUND OF STRIFE; Note:; 2 - INTO BATTLE; 3 - THE DEFENCE OF BASTION 9; 4 - DEATH MOANS AND SINGS; 5 - CRACK OF DOOM; 6 - A PLACE WHERE NONE CAN THRIVE; 7 - ESCAPE FROM POSEN; 8 - ON THE BANKS OF THE VISTULA; 9 - OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS AT LAST; 10 - DANGER'S MOUTH; 11 - A VERITABLE LEAGUE OF NATIONS; 12 - FRANZ JOSEPH; Note:; 13 - THE LOAD OF RUBBISH; 14 - LAMSDORF REVISITED; 15 - WIND ALONG THE WASTE; 16 - DEATH OF THE RED FOX; 17 - COUNTDOWN TO FREEDOM; Note:; 18 - FOR THIS RELIEF MUCH THANKS; Epilogue
- ADDENDUMIndex
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781783402946
- 1783402946
- 9781783460229
- 1783460229
- OCLC:
- 854974573
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