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    Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom
    Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom
    Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom
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    Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom

    By Carole McEntee-Taylor and The Lord Bramall

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    Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940 as part of Calais Force. Initially sent to open up supply lines to the rapidly retreating BEF, they soon found themselves defending Calais against the might of the 10th Panzer Division. Outnumbered by at least three to one they held out for 4 days until they ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender.For the next five years Ted found himself part of the huge slave labour force in Poland under the administration of Stalag XXA and Stalag XXB. Life in the POW camps bore little resemblance to the cheerful films of the 1950s with casual brutality never far from the surface. As 1945 began and the war entered its final bloody phase, the POWs dared to believe that at last they might be going home. But fate had one more cruel trick to play.As the Russians approached rapidly from the east, the terrified Germans evacuated the camps and, in temperatures below -25c, began marching the malnourished, poorly-clothed POWs back across Europe. The infamous 'death marches' to freedom across the frozen, chaotic, war ravaged landscape of Eastern Europe had begun.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJul 2, 2014
    ISBN9781473838505
    Surviving the Nazi Onslaught: The Defence of Calais to the Death March for Freedom
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    Carole McEntee-Taylor

    I write military history, historical fiction and memoirs and sometimes a mixture of all three. I am also a ghost writer of novels and memoirs.My non fiction, published by by Pen and Sword Books Ltd, include Herbert Columbine VC, Surviving the Nazi Onslaught, A Battle Too Far, Military Detention Colchester from 1947, The Battle of Bellewaarde June 1915, From Colonial Warrior to Western Front Flyer, The History of Coalhouse Fort and A History of Women’s Lives in Scunthorpe.I have also written a biography of John Doubleday to be included in his book: The Work and published The Weekend Trippers and My War and Peace myself. I am always on the look out for new military memoirs to publish. If you would like to know more please visit my website.My spiritual books are The Re-Enlightenment and The Holiday From Hell.My fiction includeSecrets ( a book of six short stories)Lives Apart: A WW2 Chronicle - a five book series inspired by the true story of my in-laws.Obsession - a five book series inspired by the true story of the missing POWs at the end of WW2.Betrayed - a stand alone murder mystery set in WW2 Germany and Palestine.Secret Lives - a six book series set before and during WW1.A One Way Ticket - a four book series inspired by the true story of Bill Young through WW2 and beyond.

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      This book is a repint of the book entitled 'Weekend Trippers', published privately by the author in 2008. It is the biography of Private Ted TAYLOR, who is a member of the author's family. He served with 1 Bn. The RIfle Brigade at Calais in May 1940, being taken prisoner at the end of the battle. The battle is covered well, with the rest of the book describing his period in captivity in Germany and Poland. The account of TAYLOR's capativity is harrowing, with the uncertainty and fight for daily survival being well recorded. It will challenge some views of the nature of captvity for prisoners of war. I have a particular interest in the Battle for Calais, so accept that this book was likely to appeal to me, but I recommend it to a wider audience for its narrative and interest.

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