MACINTYRE, Ben.
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle.
United Kingdom: Viking an Imprint of Penguin Books , 2022.
$300.00
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Item Number: RRB-150535
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First Edition of Colditz; Signed by Ben Macintyre in the Year of Publication
First edition of this military history of the prisoners in Colditz Castle during World War II. Octavo, original publisher's black cloth, pictorial endpapers, illustrated with photographs. Boldly signed and dated by Ben Macintyre in the year of publication, "Ben Macintyre 14/9/22." Fine in a fine dust jacket.
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle (2022) by Ben Macintyre is a work of narrative military history that examines Allied captivity and resistance through the microcosm of Colditz Castle, the German high-security prisoner-of-war camp for “incorrigible” escapees during the Second World War. Drawing on archival materials, memoirs, and personal testimony, Macintyre reconstructs the prison’s social world and the strategic ingenuity of repeated escape attempts, while also attending to the psychological pressures of confinement and surveillance. The book balances suspenseful storytelling with historical interpretation, using individual lives and small acts of defiance to illuminate larger questions of morale, propaganda, and the ethics of wartime endurance.
Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle.
$300.00
In Stock
