Unbroken: The Heroic True Story of a Group of ANZAC POWs in WW2 Europe by WR Beecroft

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. The tail corner of a couple of pages have been folded back. Body text and binding are still very good.

It is 1941, and the German High Command has sent General Irwin Rommel and the Afrika Korps to bolster the faltering Italian ground forces in North Africa and take over the beleaguered fortress of Tobruk. The defenders hang on grimly, but prisoners are taken on both sides in the ebb and flow of battle.

In Greece and Crete, the reverse occurs: Commonwealth forces are overwhelmed by the might of the Wehrmacht, and many fall into German hands. Many Australian and New Zealand prisoners eventually find themselves incarcerated in Campo 57, Gruppignano in north-east Italy, under the iron fist of the notorious Colonel Calcaterra of the Carabinieri.

Unbroken is the true story of Australian POWs, their capture, their attempted escapes and their ultimate liberation.