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Object description
Well written, but often very frank memoir (221pp) of his service as a gunner with the 160th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, training in England (1939 - 1940), en route to the Middle East, in Palestine (early 1940 - September 1940), in North Africa (attached to 6th Australian Division until early 1940, then to 7th Armoured Division), his capture (April 1941) near Tobruk and experiences as a prisoner of war at Derna (North Africa), Sulmona (PG78, Italy) Jacobsthal, Muhlberg and Chemnitz (Germany, 1943 - early 1944) Engelsdorf, Leipzig and a local punishment camp/mine, and on the march west (April 1945). It contains a large amount of detail on his sex life and the subject of sex among prisoners of war, including homosexuality, brothels and his 'soliciting' in post-war Germany, work and his racketeering in captivity, Russian prisoners of wars, relations with his German guards, the poor morale of American prisoners of war, Army life and his struggle against it, and backstreet life in Cairo.
Content description
Well written, but often very frank memoir (221pp) of his service as a gunner with the 160th Light Anti-Aircraft Battery, Royal Artillery, training in England (1939 - 1940), en route to the Middle East, in Palestine (early 1940 - September 1940), in North Africa (attached to 6th Australian Division until early 1940, then to 7th Armoured Division), his capture (April 1941) near Tobruk and experiences as a prisoner of war at Derna (North Africa), Sulmona (PG78, Italy) Jacobsthal, Muhlberg and Chemnitz (Germany, 1943 - early 1944) Engelsdorf, Leipzig and a local punishment camp/mine, and on the march west (April 1945). It contains a large amount of detail on his sex life and the subject of sex among prisoners of war, including homosexuality, brothels and his 'soliciting' in post-war Germany, work and his racketeering in captivity, Russian prisoners of wars, relations with his German guards, the poor morale of American prisoners of war, Army life and his struggle against it, and backstreet life in Cairo.
History note
Cataloguer PHR
History note
Catalogue date 1987-04