Robin Quinn

Hitler's Last Army (eBook, ePUB)

German POWs in Britain

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

500,000 ENEMY TROOPS ON BRITISH SOIL! Adolf Hitler would have given anything to see such headlines in 1940. five years later, half a million German soldiers, sailors and airmen did find themselves in the UK - but as prisoners of the British government. Using recently declassified documents, this book reveals how Britain - in defiance of the Geneva Convention - went on to detain these men for a further three years, and used them for forced labour. As new interviews within these pages show, some Germans were surprised to discover a freedom unknown in their homeland: 'I felt like a guest ... not any more a PoW. I could hardly imagine that they had been my enemy.' But behind the barbed wire, Nazis terrorised non-Nazis ... guards sometimes maltreated their prisoners ... and British girls who married ex-PoWs faced bitter recriminations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The History Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Januar 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752483313
• Artikelnr.: 42338794

Autorenporträt

ROBIN QUINN is an author and independent radio producer based in South-East England. His first book, Hitler's Last Army (THP), is the story of the 400,000 German prisoners of war detained in Britain during and after the Second World War. He contributes to family history and other magazines, and has written and produced over sixty programmes for BBC network radio, including the critically acclaimed Summer of 1940 and The Cuban Crisis (Radio 2).