Survivor of the Long March: Five Years as a PoW 1940-1945

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Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1 Return Journey; 2 Always by My Side; 3 All at Sea; 4 The Wrong Way; 5 Like Cattle; 6 Potatoes; 7 Bullseye; 8 Postcard Home; 9 Not Fit for Pigs; 10 Birthday Party; 11 A Nice Bit of Cheese; 12 The Worst Winter; 13 Body and Soul; 14 Black Biscuits; 15 Back to Life; 16 On the Road Again; Plates; Copyright.;Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen's Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. ""The day I was captured, I had a rifle but no ammunition."" He lost his freedom that day in may 1940 and didn't regain it until April 1945 when he was rescued by Americans near Berlin, having walked 1,600 kms from East Prussia. Silent for seventy years, Charles writes about his five lost years: the terrible things he saw and suffered; his forced work in a stone quarry and on farms; his. Cover Title Contents Acknowledgements Foreword 1 Return Journey 2 Always by My Side 3 All at Sea 4 The Wrong Way 5 Like Cattle 6 Potatoes 7 Bullseye 8 Postcard Home 9 Not Fit for Pigs 10 Birthday Party 11 A Nice Bit of Cheese 12 The Worst Winter 13 Body and Soul 14 Black Biscuits 15 Back to Life 16 On the Road Again Plates Copyright.