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Out of Colditz: My Father the POW and the Nazi Who Controlled His Fate

Out of Colditz: My Father the POW and the Nazi Who Controlled His Fate

Lascelles, David

Hardcover

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Publisher Price: $30.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 12, 2027

ISBN10: 1250475686
ISBN13: 9781250475688
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: Jan 12 2027
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

The astonishing true story of the high-profile hostages in Colditz Castle and the Nazi general who spared their lives, from David Lascelles, the son of one of the prisoners, George, Earl of Harewood

The grandson of the King. The son of the Viceroy of India. Churchill's nephew. Held captive at the notorious Colditz prisoner of war camp, they were the Prominente: scions of the British establishment, and pawns in the hands of Nazi leaders.

As a German defeat loomed, the SS head of the POW camps Gottlob Berger made a pivotal decision: he would disobey direct orders and spare their lives. Please remember what I have done for you when the war ends, he asked. This Nazi overseer, who would later be convicted of war crimes, held their future in his hands.

Eighty years later, David Lascelles--who would never have been born if his father had been executed--retraces the Prominentes' extraordinary journey and wonders who Gottlob Berger was and what motivated his fateful decision: compassion? Remorse? Or self-interest?

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