Title: Five Years Behind Hitler's Barbed Wire
Description: "On July 3, 1940, 5,000 exhausted, hungry French officers reached Oflag XVIIA in Austria. Prisoners of war, they had arrived at their home for the next five years. In 1943, they executed the largest Allied POW escape of the war. This translation with commentary of two officers' diaries reveals a never before told story of struggle and triumph"--
Subjects: Oflag XVII A (Concentration camp), French Personal narratives, World War, 1939-1945, German Prisoners and prisons, Diaries, World war, 1939-1945, prisoners and prisons, german, World war, 1939-1945, personal narratives, french