Some RAF POW books

Inclusion on this list does not necessarily signify endorsement.

FOOTSTEPS ON THE SANDS OF TIME includes listing of all RAF Bomber Command POWs in German hands

Oliver Clutton-Brock: Grub Street Publishing, 2003

THE LAST ESCAPE

John Nichol & Tony Rennell Penguin, 2003

NOT ALL GLORY

Vic Gammon: Arms and Armour Press

NO TIME FOR FEAR

Vic Gammon: Arms and Armour Press, posthumously published Oct 1 1998

NO FLIGHT FROM THE CAGE

Calton Younger: Muller, 1956
(2nd edition) Fighting High Publishing, 2013

THE DARK SIDE OF THE SKY

Harry Levy: Leo Cooper

WIRE AND WALLS: RAF Prisoners of War in Itzehoe, Spangenberg and Thorn, 1939-42

Charles Rollings: Ian Allan, 2003

WIRE AND WORSE: RAF Prisoners of War in Laufen, Biberach, Lübeck and Warburg, 1940-42

Charles Rollings: Ian Allan, 2004
   

Some more general books on POWs:

 

PRISONER OF WAR

Pat Reid and Maurice Michael: Hamlyn, 1994

PRISONERS OF THE REICH

David Rolf: Leo Cooper, 1988

YORKSHIRE POST - KRIEGIE EDITION

compiled by Yorkshire POWs in Stalag Luft VI, foreword by Dixie Deans: one copy known to be on display at Eden Camp

DULAG LUFT

After the Battle issue number 106: article by Charles Rollings

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Research

Foot & Langley in MI 9 Escape and Evasion state: 'Camp histories of many POW camps in Germany, compiled in the late Summer of 1945 by SBOs and camp IOs - some of them still in a bad temper - fill WO208/3269-95. (No such reports have been found for camps in Italy.) Technically these are all secondary sources, compiled after the events they describe, but written soon afterwards by senior participants who had a proper grasp of their subject matter, and temper apart, wrote with a fairly balanced judgement.'

The National Archives, Kew London

Footsteps on the Sands of Time (see above) is a prime source for research on RAF POWs in German hands and has an excellent bibliography at p512-517.