VOICES OF COLDITZ

Hand-written accounts by Allied officers inside Oflag 1V-C, confined within the impregnable cold walls of Colditz Castle during WW2. Two Canadian army officers passed a logbook from a Red Cross parcel among the officers and men so that they could write their own stories to be published after the war. Although much of the logbook was typed and printed in 1946, the original writings were concealed in a bedroom drawer for nearly 70 years before finally seeing the light of day. They are now printed in their original historical form, exquisitely neat handwriting in pencil, dense across the pages but still very clear in these facsimile plates and beautifully typeset text transcript opposite together with an explanation about the writer. In meticulously written pages they bring to life many episodes of courageous prison camp escapes, air, land and sea battles, bombing raids, incarceration, deprivation and even amusing wartime experiences plus poems and drawings of their vivid experiences. 288 large, quality pages plus 30 pages of colour photos and portraits of the officers with their ranks and more illustrations.