Michael Hingston

Into Enemy Arms

The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape With the Allied Airman She Loved

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The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression, and a harrowing journey to freedom. In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII, a POW camp in the same region. Twenty-three of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching column-and by chance hobbled into Lossen. One among them, Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey, was the man… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-908117-63-2
EAN: 9781908117632
Produktnummer: 23577532
Verlag: Grub Street Publishing
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 900 KB

Über den Autor

Michael Hingston is a trained journalist. He spent twelve years working as a general news reporter, crime writer, and industrial correspondent before turning to public relations. His book Into Enemy Arms is based on his aunt Ditha's vivid recollections recorded in over a hundred hours of conversation between the two of them, as well as exhaustive research in archives to verify the facts.