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Object description
A ts account (291pp) about his service in the Royal Artillery (September 1941), loading the guns and the voyage from Port Haifa to the Aegean, landing in Kos, German air raids by JU 88s, German parachutists and the fight for Kos (October 1943), his capture and voyage to Athens in SS SALVADORE where he was marched through the city to the internment camp, the train journey to Stalag VIIA, Mensburg, an interrogation camp at Luckenwalde and the psychological methods used to break down the prisoner's morale, the journey to Oflag VIIB, Eichstatt, details of the camp, the sub zero temperatures, and life as a prisoner of war. The account is particularly significant for his descriptions of the conditions, treatment of the prisoners, the German guards, his opinions of the Germans, and his condemnation of what he describes as the ill planned expedition to Kos in which the inadequate British forces were without any leadership above unit level. Together with his original log book.
Content description
A ts account (291pp) about his service in the Royal Artillery (September 1941), loading the guns and the voyage from Port Haifa to the Aegean, landing in Kos, German air raids by JU 88s, German parachutists and the fight for Kos (October 1943), his capture and voyage to Athens in SS SALVADORE where he was marched through the city to the internment camp, the train journey to Stalag VIIA, Mensburg, an interrogation camp at Luckenwalde and the psychological methods used to break down the prisoner's morale, the journey to Oflag VIIB, Eichstatt, details of the camp, the sub zero temperatures, and life as a prisoner of war. The account is particularly significant for his descriptions of the conditions, treatment of the prisoners, the German guards, his opinions of the Germans, and his condemnation of what he describes as the ill planned expedition to Kos in which the inadequate British forces were without any leadership above unit level. Together with his original log book.
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