Survivor of the Long March
Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945
2017
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6847-8 (ISBN)
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7509-6847-8 (ISBN)
Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen’s Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. ‘The day I was captured, I had a rifle but no ammunition.’ He lost his freedom that day in May 1940 and didn’t regain it until April 1945 when he was rescued by Americans near Berlin, having walked 1,600 kms from East Prussia.
Silent for seventy years, Charles writes about his five lost years: the terrible things he saw and suffered; his forced work in a stone quarry and on farms; his period in solitary confinement for sabotage; and his long journey home in one of the worst winters on record, across the frozen river Elbe, to Berlin and liberation. His story is also about friendship, of physical and mental resilience and of compassion for everyone who suffered. Part of that story includes the terrible Long March, or Black March, when 80,000 British POWs were forced to trek through a vicious winter westwards across Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany as the Soviets approached. Thousands died. There are simply no memoirs of that terrible trek – except this one.
Silent for seventy years, Charles writes about his five lost years: the terrible things he saw and suffered; his forced work in a stone quarry and on farms; his period in solitary confinement for sabotage; and his long journey home in one of the worst winters on record, across the frozen river Elbe, to Berlin and liberation. His story is also about friendship, of physical and mental resilience and of compassion for everyone who suffered. Part of that story includes the terrible Long March, or Black March, when 80,000 British POWs were forced to trek through a vicious winter westwards across Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany as the Soviets approached. Thousands died. There are simply no memoirs of that terrible trek – except this one.
Charles Waite is now over 90 years old and has finally decided to tell his harrowing story, with the help of Dee La Vardera, the author of seven books and countless articles for such publications as the Guardian. Terry Waite, CBE is a humanitarian and author.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2017 |
|---|---|
| Co-Autor | Dee Vardera |
| Vorwort | Terry Waite |
| Zusatzinfo | 32 Plates, black and white; 52 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | Stroud |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 165 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 320 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7509-6847-8 / 0750968478 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7509-6847-8 / 9780750968478 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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