The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany

The story of Colditz has been told in a variety of forms but in this book MacKenzie chronicles the development of the Colditz myth and puts what happened inside the castle in the context of British and Commonwealth POW life in Germany as a whole. Being a captive of the Third Reich--from the moment of surrender down to the day of liberation and repatriation --was more complicated and a good deal tougher than the popular myth would suggest. The physical and mental demands of survival far outweighed escaping activity in order of importance in most camps almost all of the time, and even in Colditz the reality was in some respects very different from the almost Boy's Own caricature that developed during the post-war decades.

Text v angličtině. Pevná vazba s přebalem, 25x17 cm, 445 stran. 

Vydání: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Stav knihy: Velmi dobrý stav.