Survivor of the Long March (eBook)

Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945

Charles Waite (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
224 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-0-7524-7752-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2012
• Co-Autor: Dee La Vardera
• Vorwort: Terry Waite CBE
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abbeville • April 1945 • black march • convoy • czechoslovakia • Farms • forced work • Germany • hard labour • may 1940 • Poland • POW • Prisoner of War • private charles waite • quarry • Queen's Royal Regiment • Second World War • solitary confinement • Soviets • World War 2 • World War II • World War Two • ww2 • ww2, wwii, world war two, world war 2, world war ii, second world war, private charles waite, queen's royal regiment, convoy, abbeville, may 1940, april 1945, forced work, hard labour, farms, quarry, black march, POW, prisoner of war, soviets, czechoslovakia, germany, poland, solitary confinement • WWII
• ISBN-10: 0-7524-7752-8 / 0752477528
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7524-7752-7 / 9780752477527