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Authors: Sean Longden

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32. A group photo showing Gordon Barber (back row, second from right) and ‘Lofty’ Griggs (back row, third from right), Frank Turton (middle row, first on left) and Ken Willats (bottom row, first on right). Next to him is Phipps who had a nervous breakdown (see p.271). Barber, Turton and Griggs saved Willats’s life when he fell sick during the long march westwards.

33. Gordon Barber photographed in 2005.

34. The house in Wermsdorf in which Sykes, suffering from dysentery and malnutrition, took shelter after escaping from a POW column in Spring 1945.

35. Sykes’ POW ID tag from Stalag XIIA.

36. Eighteen year old Eric ‘Bill’ Sykes with the 7th Battalion, Parachute Regiment in 1944.

37. Sykes in 1994 after parachuting into Normandy on the 50th anniversary of D-Day.

38. Originally captioned ‘A Hero Comes Home to Devon’ the cheery atmosphere belied the reality of the homecoming for many ex-prisoners. Few among them considered themselves heroes and many struggled for years to cope with their wartime memories. (Imperial War Museum CP12833F)

Table of Contents

Author biography

Copyright page

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Preface

Map of wartime Europe showing locations of the main stalags

1 Into the Bag

2 Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here

3 Industry

4 The Land Army

5 A Place Not Called Home

6 Friends, Enemies and Lovers

7 Danger, Disease, Decay and Death

8 The Column of the Damned

9 The End

10 Every Day a Bonus

Notes

Sources

Index

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