Forty Men Eight Horses
Book Details
Author(s)Douglas Arthur
ISBN / ASINB00ILQNBVA
ISBN-13978B00ILQNBV2
Sales Rank602,760
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
The opening chapters of Forty Men Eight Horses records in detail the tragic loss in April/May 1941, of the "106 of Shaw Street", a Liverpool Territorial Yeomanry Regiment. They relate how almost half of the full complement of the Unit was killed during the retreat from Greece. The exhausted survivors, evacuated to the Island of Crete, to become prisoners of war.
After a perilous sea voyage, running the gauntlet of Allied submarines, the narrative goes on to give a startling description of the squalor, starvation and brutality of life in a concentration camp, followed by a nightmare journey into the unknown on a stinking ghost train.
Four years of life as a prisoner of war in German labour camps, and an overcrowded Stalag, are graphically related. The cruelty - and the compassion - of the enemy; the unique comradeship of the prisoner of war; the thwarted passion in the power station and the sinking of Frau 'Dreadnaught'; the fun and frolics of a Stalag Theatre; the outwitting of the SS; the friendly fire of the US Air Force.
After a perilous sea voyage, running the gauntlet of Allied submarines, the narrative goes on to give a startling description of the squalor, starvation and brutality of life in a concentration camp, followed by a nightmare journey into the unknown on a stinking ghost train.
Four years of life as a prisoner of war in German labour camps, and an overcrowded Stalag, are graphically related. The cruelty - and the compassion - of the enemy; the unique comradeship of the prisoner of war; the thwarted passion in the power station and the sinking of Frau 'Dreadnaught'; the fun and frolics of a Stalag Theatre; the outwitting of the SS; the friendly fire of the US Air Force.
