Footprints on the Sands of Time: RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War in Germany 1939 - 1945 - Hardcover
This extensive book is divided into two parts. The first, which has eighteen chapters, deals with German POW camps as they were opened, in chronological order and to which the Bomber Command POWs were sent. Each chapter includes anecdotes and stories of the men in the camps - capture, escape, illness, and murder - and illustrates the awfulness of captivity even in German hands. Roughly one in every twenty captured airmen never returned home.
The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war's end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs.
The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10,995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction.
The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
The first part also covers subjects such as how the POWs were repatriated during the war; how they returned at war's end; the RAF traitors; the war crimes; and the vital importance of the Red Cross. The style is part reference, part gripping narrative, and the book will correct many historical inaccuracies, and includes previously unpublished photographs.
The second part comprises an annotated list of ALL 10,995 RAF Bomber Command airmen who were taken prisoner, together with an extended introduction.
The two parts together are the fruit of exhaustive research and provide an important contribution to our knowledge of the war and a unique reference work not only for the serious RAF historian but for the ex-POWs themselves and their families and anyone with an interest in the RAF in general and captivity in particular.
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About the Author:
Oliver Clutton-Brock, born in London three weeks before the end of the Second World War, spent the first 17 years of his life in Lincoln, surrounded by many of Bomber Command’s now historic airfields. Early aviation memories are of four-engined aircraft always flying overhead, searchlights, and a trip in a DH Rapide from RAF Scampton on Battle of Britain Day sometime in the fifties.
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- PublisherGrub Street Publishing
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1904010350
- ISBN 13 9781904010357
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback. Important and very detailed reference on RAF Bomber Command Prisoners of war in Germany. Also repatriation, RAF traitors, war crimes, role of the Red Cross. 1st Edition 2003. 528pp., very extensive appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Signed on title page by author and 13 POW's including Walter Morison 102 Squadron, Don Brown, 428, George Cash DFC 139 Squadron, Ken Knott 103 and 166 Squadrons, Doug Fay 155 Squadron, etc, etc. Very nice copy in very good dustwrapper. Above average weight. Signed by Veterans. Seller Inventory # 026924
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