Auschwitz: A British POW's Eyewitness Account - Softcover

Colin Rushton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849533466 ISBN 13: 9781849533461

Publisher: Summersdale Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The Germans gave it another name, now synonymous with mankind's darkest hours. They called it Auschwitz. Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he sabotaged Nazi industrial work, risked his life to alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners and aided a partisan group planning a mass break-out. This shocking story sheds new light on the operations at the camp, exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS and presents the largely unknown story of military POWs held there.

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From the Back Cover:

As seen in the BBC TV documentary Auschwitz: The Forgotten Witness

"An extraordinary book."
--Military Illustrated

"Colin Rushton's masterly account . . . is a harrowing addition to public knowledge of the Holocaust."
--Soldier magazine

In 1942, Arthur Dodd, a driver and volunteer for the Royal Army Service Corps, was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Auschwitz, a name now synonymous with man's darkest hour. Forced to do hard labor, starved, and savagely beaten, Dodd endured fourteen months in the Third Reich's most notorious death camp. He refused to submit as he sabotaged Nazi industrial work, risked his life to aid Jewish prisoners, and assisted a partisan group planning a mass breakout. A departure from the prevailing accounts from the Jewish perspective of the horrors of Auschwitz, this shocking story sheds new light on the operations at the camp, exposes a hierarchy of prisoner treatment by the SS, and presents the largely unknown story of military POWs held there.

About the Author:

Colin Rushton is an author and published poet whose work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, anthologies, and other publications around the world. He is the author of Spectator in Hell: A British Soldier's Story of Imprisonment in Auschwitz, also published by Pelican. A native of Liverpool, England, he has worked in metallurgy and retail and resides with his wife in Cheshire, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Summersdale Publishers
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849533466
• ISBN 13: 9781849533461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285