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Into Enemy Arms: The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl s Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape With the Allied Airman She Loved - Couverture rigide

Hingston, Michael

 
9781904943501: Into Enemy Arms: The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl s Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape With the Allied Airman She Loved
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ISBN 10 : 1904943500 ISBN 13 : 9781904943501
Editeur : Grub Street Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

Ditha Bruncel's detailed memory of living in Germany during the Second World War provides a rare, first-hand insight into the day-to-day struggle against Nazi oppression, when even small acts of defiance or resistance carried great personal risk.

In 1945 Ditha was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time more than one thousand, five hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII, a POW camp in Upper Silesia. Twenty three of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching column and by chance hobbled into Lossen. One amongst them, Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey, was the man Ditha was destined to meet and fall in love with.

This book tells the extraordinary story of Ditha and the escaped POWs she helped to save. Together they embarked on a dangerous and daring flight out of Germany. As they faced exhaustion, hunger, extreme cold and the constant risk of discovery, Ditha and Gordon's love for one another intensified, and so did their determination to survive and escape together.

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À propos de l'auteur

Michael Hingston is a trained journalist. He spent twelve years working as a general news reporter, crime writer and industrial correspondent before turning to public relations. This book is based on his aunt Ditha's vivid recollections recorded in over a hundred hours of conversation between the two of them, as well as exhaustive research in archives to verify the facts.

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Éditeur
Grub Street Publishing
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1904943500
ISBN 13 
9781904943501
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
288
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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