P. O. W.

The fascinating account of a British Naval Officer who was captured during the Second World War and endured the prisoner of war camps of both the Fascist Italians and the Nazi Germans."e;I was captured by the Germans in a partisan fishing boat off the Dalmatian Island of Lussin on November 13, 1943. As a result of a wound then sustained I was repatriated via Sweden on September 9, 1944....My aim throughout has been to present an accurate picture of things as they were. My motives were personal-so that I should not bore my wife with endless anecdote, so that I should be forearmed with an adequate answer to the inevitable question, "e;What was it like?"e; I knew that as soon as I returned and groped for the broken ends of the thread of my life, I should forget this strange catalepsis and, in a week or two, should find it difficult to believe these things really happened.And, if further excuse for writing were needed, it would be that I was fortunate enough to have as friend and companion in most of these experiences Lieutenant John Worsley, R.N.V.R., Official Naval War Artist, who illustrated the book."e;