We have received the following message through our Abotts Langley Branch;

May I ask you to be kind enough, please, to draw the attention of Royal British Legion members in Abbots Langley to my late father's book? The title is 'My Underground War'. It is his memoirs of the five years he spent as a prisoner-of-war during WWII. He typed them in the 1970s, and they subsequently vanished into a storage box, which came to me after he died. I recently edited and published them.

The first half of the book covers his capture near Dunkirk in 1940 and his experiences in the Stalag VIIIB PoW camp. For most of this time he endured forced labour and occasional beatings in a coal mine. The second half deals with his escape from the ‘Death March’ and his liberation by the Red Army.

This is a gripping yarn of capture, resistance, and liberation, revealing for the first time how he and a close-knit group of chums carried on the war despite their imprisonment, and even got away with killing a couple of Nazi guards who had ruthlessly bullied frail prisoners.

The relatively short book is available exclusively from Amazon.co.uk as either a Kindle download or a slim paperback. Below are links to the pages on Amazon for the Kindle and paperback versions.

I'm attaching a copy of the A4 poster/A5 flyer for the book. These may be printed out, or if you would like me to post any to you for display, please let me know, with a name and postal address.

Best Regards - Albert J. Clack