DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL?

An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of 'The Tattooist of Auschwitz.' Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a notorious German prison camp to see the girl he loved. This is his incredible true story. It is a Sunday Times bestseller which has sold over 60,000 copies. Even in the most horrifying places on earth, hope still lingers. When war was declared, Horace Greasley was just 20 years old. After seven weeks' training with the 2/5th Battalion, the Royal Leicestershire Regiment, Horace found himself facing the might of the German Army in a muddy field south of Cherbourg, in northern France, with just 30 rounds in his ammunition pouch. His war didn't last long. On 25th May 1940 he was taken prisoner, and so began the harrowing journey to a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland. Those who survived the gruelling ten-week march to the camp were left broken and exhausted, all chance of escape seemingly extinguished. But when Horace met Rosa, the daughter of one of his captors, his story changed - fate, it seemed, had thrown him a lifeline. Horace risked everything in order to steal out of the camp to see his love, bringing back supplies for his fellow prisoners and in doing so he offered hope to his comrades, and defiance to one of the most brutal regimes in history. Notably at one point Horace facilitated the distribution of daily news from the BBC to 3,000 prisoners under the noses of the camp guards. Horace has told the story to writer Ken Scott who makes perhaps a little too much of the lovers? sex scenes! You decide as you wipe away tears and be amazed at his story of five years as a PoW in Silesia. 313 page paperback.