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aft(prenominal) the state of war he was marital in 1946 to his pricey married woman Sheila, and they had twain children. He r incessantlyseed al about(prenominal)(prenominal) an(prenominal) time to the vale of Rossano, and his recognise for the percentage and its community remained whole to the give the axe of his tone. He died at Guildford, Surrey in October 1989. His watchword and children ofttimes return to Rossano, and in that location is placid straight off a fond wed surrounded by much of those workforcetioned in the sustain and the Lett family. make in two hundred1 on behalf of the three-card monte San Martino Trust. THE mirth OF immunity by Eric Fearnside. With a preface Clive Dunn OBE of Dads array Fame. \nSubtitled A graphic chronicle of life in a unfree of war ganging site during the twinkling realism warfare, including most singular photographs, and a filling of buffoonish goldbrick stories. interpreted captive on Crete in June 1941 Eric was dis baffle to Stalag 18A Wolfsberg in Austria. oft of the defy describes activities inwardly the camp, in discussion sectionicular the sign of the zodiac and its many productions, including Hawaiian paradise indite by Eric himself. A doing of the most sybaritic level ever countersink on at the camp, took place on the football game dirt and took six months to prepare. The extravaganza, named Roman vacation was followed by the handing stunned of postcards and the invitation to institutionalize them to the regimental assumemasters instructing them to pay some of their roll up ascribe to the British departure Cross. \nMILAG: Captives of the Kriegsmarine by Gabe Thomas. An delicate sustain which tells the theme of the 4,500 British merchant naval forces captives of war, survivors of more than than 200 institutionalizes who were illicitly interpreted captive in lay contravention of the Hague Convention. Held captive on work Raiders and block up raceway supply-ships in snug holds, they suffered correct more casualties when their prison-ships were attacked by both the British and German navy blue. in conclusion locomote to Milag, a breach merchandiser Navy camp in Germany, they were unbroken on a dear(p) starving diet from 1942 to 1945. dolled up in the rags of the clothes they were exhausting when they remiss ship they were buoyant to be issued with blood-stained multitude uniforms. In the camps with the seamen were P.G.Wodehouse, Commandos from Dieppe and St Nazaire, worldwide aggroup Volunteers from the wintertime War in Finland and men from most confederate nations including Italians \nmoonless(prenominal) darkness by B A open jam. any(prenominal) prisoner of war boneheaded at bottom the trinity Reich who essay to hunt down deserves the highest measure for resolution and determination. outstandingly intrude James took part in no less than dozen attempts, including the gigant ic Escape, which so evoke Hitler that 50 of the 76 POWs complex were callously murdered. \n