All for Freedom - A True Story of Escape from the Nazis

A True Story of Escape from the Nazis

D. T. Davies, Ioan Wyn Evans

The harrowing autobiography of former World War II Prisoner of War D. T. Davies of Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire. An English adaptation of Dianc i Ryddid.

ISBN: 9781785621680

Price: £9.99

Department: Biographical, Biog, History, Carmarthenshire, Politics

Format: Paperback

Language: English

No. of pages: 160

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His clear insights, written sixty years later, are a very useful window into the experiences of British troops in the southern Mediterranean, but this account is no war-film screenplay. There is no caricaturing or glamorising, merely the faithful recording of events which still disturb over 70 years on, and which testify to the heroic resilience of the human spirit even in its very darkest hours.
- J. Graham Jones, Gwales

Blurb

D.T. Davies witnessed Nazi atrocities at first hand. Serving with the Royal Artillery, he was originally captured after the Battle of Crete in 1941. He spent three years as a prisoner of war, in Austria, then Hungary and finally at the barbaric concentration camp of Zemun, near Belgrade. These places were far removed from the rural Carmarthenshire where he was brought up, but their stench remains with him to this day. DT was awarded the Military Medal for his wartime service, but this account is no war film screenplay. There is no caricaturing or glamorizing, merely the faithful recording of events which still disturb and defy belief over 70 years on, but which also testify to the heroic resilience of the human spirit even in its darkest hours.

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