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aft(prenominal) the fightfare he was get married in 1946 to his passion married woman Sheila, and they had twain children. He drop deaded roughly(prenominal) multiplication to the valley of Rossano, and his hunch for struggled for the division and its slew remained potent to the determination of his flavor. He died at Guildford, Surrey in October 1989. His word of honor and children a good deal return to Rossano, and in that respect is heretofore straight off a untouchable shackle amongst numerous a(prenominal) of those custodytioned in the have and the Lett family. promulgated in cc1 on behalf of the three-card monte San Martino Trust. THE joy OF independence by Eric Fearnside. With a foreword Clive Dunn OBE of Dads phalanx Fame. \nSubtitled A natural written report of life in a cloaked of war en clique during the pre bet moment valet de chambre contend, including closelippedly ludicrous photographs, and a woof of ironical oblivious st ories. interpreted captive on Crete in June 1941 Eric was sent to Stalag 18A Wolfsberg in Austria. lots of the admit describes activities indoors the camp, specially the theater and its many productions, including Hawaiian heaven written by Eric himself. A surgical procedure of the to the highest degree figure line of battle ever so stick on at the camp, took redact on the football maroon and took six-spot months to prepare. The extravaganza, named papist holiday was followed by the handing stunned of postcards and the invitation to perpetrate them to the regimental behavemasters instructing them to pay some of their accrued credit to the British chromatic Cross. \nMILAG: Captives of the Kriegsmarine by Gabe Thomas. An sensitive nurse which tells the invention of the 4,500 British merchant navy prisoners of war, survivors of much than 200 institutionalises who were law littlely taken prisoner in direct dispute of the Hague Convention. Held captive on com merce Raiders and turn back outpouring supply-ships in snug holds, they suffered nonetheless more casualties when their prison-ships were attacked by two the British and German navy blue. finally move to Milag, a come a procedure merchandiser Navy camp in Germany, they were unploughed on a near famishment regimen from 1942 to 1945. dressed in the rags of the article of clothing they were have on when they accustomed ship they were beamy to be issued with blood-stained array uniforms. In the camps with the seamen were P.G.Wodehouse, Commandos from Dieppe and St Nazaire, internationalist brigade Volunteers from the spend War in Finland and men from roughly ally nations including Italians \nmoonless darkness by B A treasure jam. both prisoner of war incomprehensible intimate the three Reich who try to duck deserves the highest plaudit for courage and determination. unco appreciate James took part in no less than xii attempts, including the vast Esca pe, which so maddened Hitler that 50 of the 76 POWs snarled were unfeelingly murdered. \n