Stories from the Stalags

Stories from the Stalags Allied Airmen Behind the Wire in WW2 Language:English Format:Hardback Dimensions:6.1" x 9.2" Pages:256 Photos:32 mono Publisher:Air World ISBN:9781399073301 Item No. 9781399073301 From 1942 until the end of the war in Europe, the aircraft of the RAF’s Bomber Command and the United States 8th and 15th Air Forces provided twenty-four-hour ‘round-the-clock’ bombing of the Third Reich. Aircraft and crew casualties were heavy as bomber after bomber succumbed to flak and fighter defenses.For those not killed outright by the Luftwaffe’s onslaught, only baling out over hostile enemy territory could offer any hope of survival. But this generally meant solitary confinement, interrogation, indignities and even extreme hardship for the men who became known as ‘Kriegies’, a word derived from the German Kriegsgefangenen meaning ‘prisoners of war’.Many months of incarceration, sometimes in appalling conditions, would become commonplace for those held in