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| 1822 | BEE, W. A. (Bill). All Men Back - All One Big Mistake. xiii, 143p., illus. Carlisle, W.A.: Hesperian, 1998. ISBN: 0859052540.
The author was one of the survivors of the sinking of HMAS Perth. Her loss is graphically described, but most of the book concerns his POW experiences. |
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| 1823 | BIRD, Arthur H. Farewell Milag. ix, 196p., illus. St Leonards-on-Sea: Literatours, 1995. ISBN: 0951347519.
Bird was captured by Komet when m.v. Australind was sunk. This autobiographical work is a full account of the workings of the Milag Nord prison camp for merchant seamen. He escaped in 1943. |
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| 1824 | BISHOP, Jack. In Pursuit of Freedom. 126p. London: Cooper, 1977. ISBN: 0850522234.
The story of a rating who served in Oswald in the Mediterranean until her sinking, then spent five years in Italian camps. |
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| 1825 | BLAIR, Joan, & BLAIR, Clay. Return from the River Kwai. 338p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Macdonald & Jane's; New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979. ISBN: 0354044176. One of the little known tragedies of the war. When the survivors of the building of the Burma-Siam railway were being moved to Japan in 1944, many of them died when their transports were sunk by American submarines. Some of them had already survived the sinking of the Australian cruiser Perth. Based on survivors accounts. |
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| 1826 | BROOM, Barbara. Geoffrey Broom's War: Letters and P.O.W Diaries. [x], 238p., illus. Edinburgh: Pentland, 1993. ISBN: 1858210097.
Broom joined the Royal Naval Patrol Service in 1940 and served for two years on HMT Norse in the Eastern Mediterranean. In 1943 he moved to Special Services and was captured at Leros. Although he survived the war he died aged 58 and his letters and diaries are published here by his widow. |
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| 1827 | COOPER, George T. Never Forget, Never Forgive: A Japanese Prisoner of War Remembers. [vi], 181p., illus. Ringwood: Navigator, 1995. ISBN: 0902830538.
Cooper was a Lieutenant Commander on Exeter when she was lost. He spent almost four years as a prisoner in the East Indies and this is movingly described. Originally published by Hale in 1963 as Ordeal in the Sun. |
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| 1828 | COWARD, Roger V. Sailors in Cages. 237p. London: Macdonald, 1967.
The author's wartime experiences. As a young signalman, he was sunk on the Voltaire by a German raider. Rescued by the raider, he spent four years in POW camps and it is with this grim story that the book is mainly concerned. |
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| 1829 | CRUMP, Simon. They Call It U-Boat Hotel. 80p., illus. Grizedale: Grizedale Books, 2001. ISBN: 0952545039.
The story of the Hall in Cumbria which was used as an Officers POW camp. Tells, the story, prints documents, has oral history and accounts of such famous escape attempts as Von Werra's. |
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| 1830 | DANCOCKS, Daniel G. In Enemy Hands: Canadian Prisoners of War 1939–45. xvi, 303p., illus. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1983. ISBN: 0771025475.
Includes brief details of the fate of the Athabaskan and Dieppe survivors. |
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| 1831 | FOOT, M. R. D., & LANGLEY, J. M. MI9: The British Secret Service that Fostered Escape and Evasion 1939–1945 and Its American Counterpart. 365p., bibliog., illus., index. London: Bodley Head, 1979. ISBN: 0370300866. Describes inter alia how some sailors escaped from captivity and how the RN was sometimes involved in aiding escape. |
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| 1832 | JAMES, David. A Prisoner's Progress. xi, 164p., illus. London: Blackwood, 1947.
He was captured in the North Sea in 1943 when his MGB was sunk. He soon bluffed his way from prison camp to Stockholm, disguised as a Bulgarian officer called I. Bagarov and then home. Reprinted by Hollis & Carter in 1954. US title: Escaper's Progress. Republished with that title by Pen & Sword in 2008 (ISBN: 1844158438). |
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| 1833 | JOHNS, W. E., & KELLY, R. A. No Surrender: The Story of William E. Johns, DSM, Chief Ordnance Artificer and How He survived after the Eventual Sinking of HMS Exeter in the Java Sea in March 1942. 224p., illus. London: Harrap, 1969. ISBN: 0245596763.
The first third of the book covers the wartime career of the Exeter up to her sinking and the remainder the harrowing tale of a Japanese prison camp. Reprinted in 1990 by Allen (ISBN: 1852271515). |
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| 1834 | McGOWRAN, Tom. Beyond the Bamboo Screen: Scottish Prisoners of War Under the Japanese. 159p., illus. Dunfermline: Cualann Press, 1999. ISBN: 0953503615.
These almost 50 brief tales are taken mainly from POW WOW, the Newsletter of the Scottish Far East Prisoner of War Association. There are a few from merchant seamen and a few on the sea transports used to move the POWs. |
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| 1835 | MEDD, Peter. The Long Walk Home: An Escape Through Italy. 176p., frontis. London: Lehmann, 1951.
Flying a recce from Warspite in his Walrus in 1940 he was shot down over Italy. In September 1943 while being moved from an Italian to a German prison camp following the armistice, he escaped and made it to the Allied lines. He was then based as an instructor in the UK but was killed in a plane crash in August 1944. This is the story of his home run, reconstructed from his own notes by his partner in the escape, Major Frank Simms. |
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| 1836 | MILLER, David. Mercy Ships. x, 198p. bibliog., illus., index. London: Continuum, 2008. ISBN: 185285572X.
The untold story of prisoner of war exchanges. Few of them happened but the tale of tortuous negotiations and dangerous journeys is well told. |
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| 1837 | MORGAN, Guy. Only Ghosts Can Live. 168p., illus. London: Lockwood; New York: Whittlesey House, 1945.
Morgan was captured by the Germans in a partisan fishing boat off the Dalmatian Island of Lussin in 1943. His capture is briefly described, but the book concentrates on his term of imprisonment. US title: POW |
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| 1838 | OAKLEY, Derek. Bagged in World War 2: Two Tales of Royal Marines Prisoners Of War - The Jim Fallace Story And The Diary Of Benjamin Knapton. (Royal Marines Historical Society Special Publication No. 24). 103p., illus. Royal Marines Historical Society, 2001. Fallace was captured in Hong Kong when it fell. He was sunk in the Lisbon Maru en route to Japan and was one of only half a dozen to escape ashore in China and then managed to reach India where he joined the RINVR for the rest of the war. Knapton was born in 1899 and joined the Marines in 1917 and served for twenty-one years. He was recalled to service in 1939 and served in DEMS. He was on s.s. Natia when she was sunk in the South Atlantic by the German raider Thor (listed as Ver in his diary) in October 1940. Rescued by her, he then spent four years in German POW camps. This pamphlet includes his contemporary diary. |
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| 1839 | OLDHAM, Peter. Lieutenant Stephen Polkinghorn, DSC, RNR. 64p., illus. Auckland: New Zealand Military Historical Society, 1984.
An account of the loss of the Peterel at Shanghai in 1941, but more concerned with the fate of British POWs in Shanghai. |
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| 1840 | PARKIN, Ray. Into the Smother: A Journal of the Burma-Siam Railway. xv, 291p., illus. London: Hogarth, 1963. ISBN: 0207121133.
A continuation of Out of the Smoke. The story of some captured survivors of Perth, who suffered terribly at the hands of the Japanese when working to build the infamous railway. The author was a survivor and one of Perth's crew. |
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| 1841 | PRYCE, J. E. Heels in Line. 223p. London: Barker, 1958.
There is a graphic description of the sinking of Gloucester off Crete, but the bulk of the book describes his trials and adventures in prison camps in Greece, Austria, and Germany. |
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