Excellent book.

I really enjoyed this book. It really jerks at every emotion within my body. Alot of happiness and laughter throughout the book. The stories of great comradary and close friendships to forbidden love and the excitement of escape was brilliant. Only a very sad conclusion and a very harsh reminder of how much evil was drawn to the surface of many of people in such times. Thankyou jim!

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An insightful and fantastic read

Such an amazing story! Some parts were hard to hear however it’s a very insightful book into what people had to go through during the war.

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moved, this book needs to be taught in schools

An amazing piece of writing and history, I wanted more, will listen to this again

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Fantastic and harrowing

This is an example of why war in the Ukraine or anywhere is tantamount to insanity. An English POW's account of 5 years as a guest of the German military during WWII, and of the methods used by Russians to exact revenge when over. This account draws on all of the emotions of the listener /reader and isnt for the faint of heart as we witness the best and worst of humanity. An important piece of history that I highly recommend. Thank you Audible. Fantastic!

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Fascinating

I really enjoyed this and it's a fascinating story. I found the graphic sex scenes a bit gratuitous though... less is more.

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A good story but awkward sex scenes

I enjoyed this recount of an Englishman’s experience as a prisoner of war. However there was distracting sexual content like a cross between a mills and boon and a human anatomy textbook. I found myself cringing at certain points. The narrators performance of the female character was pretty awful! But he tried. The other voices were ok, he did pretty well with accents I thought.

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Delightful

This story had everything that a story from WW11 . Found it sensitive made me laugh and feel sad. It is unbelievable what one man can do to another. It how men in despair go about survival and courage and determination the have. loved all about this .Narration excellent Enjoyable read.L Nice love story as well

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A fanciful sex romp with gaping flaws to its truth

A quick Google search will identify a controversy where a claimed photo of Greasly with Stalin at a camp is revealed to be of a Soviet soldier identified by name. Ask yourself why Greasly waited till all those who he went through the war with were dead before releasing an account of his daily heroism so incredible that like true war heroes (e.g. Douglas Bader etc.) there would have been no stopping others writing about him at the time. The ghost writer has an evident porn predilection and the 'voice ' is that of a pornographer describing a fantasy with its attendant male god-like sexual prowess rather than an honest recall of loving encounters. No (secretly or otherwise) Jewish camp official would leave his exquisitely beautiful teenage daughter roaming in and around the camp to be repeatedly bedded in various locations while supposedly having English lessons. Neither would he, for months on end not notice his daughter slipping out at night to catch passenger trains running conveniently one way around 11 pm and returning round 4 am to and from a forest next to a remote POW camp to meet her lover in an also conveniently placed church deep in that forest! She never gets pregnant all this time. A loose bar discovered in a German barracks that can be taken out so as to allow a human body almost as wide as a window to exit and enter at will when barred windows would have at least 5-6 bars. The death knell was, however, when the author forgets he's writing a recount of events furnished to him by an old soldier's memory and switches at times from that narrative to the obvious 'eye of God' fiction of describing the thoughts going through the head of a German guard that is about to be killed by one of Geasly's fellow POWs. Sorry, it doesn't wash no matter how much anyone would like it to be true, and since reading the above imagination presented as fact, I didn't waste further time on it.

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Was an amazing testimony

while the book itself is fantastic I do think that the story should have gone a little bit further into his married life especially after the very sad ending that as someone who has mental health issues it actually left me in a very bad state...

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Only half the story was enjoyable

Oh dear - this is certainly a good story, but it can be split into two sections. The first section tells the tale of a brave British POW who pokes his finger at the Germans and does wonders for the morale of his fellow prisoners. The second section, however, should perhaps feature as an article in 'Penthouse' magazine. The love story which features throughout is so detailed in its sexual nature that I felt a bit embarrassed to listen to it. I'm far from being a prude, but the graphic descriptions of Horace and Rosa and their sexual encounters were totally unnecessary in the context of this story, and overshadowed the undoubted heroics of Horace Greasley. With half of the story being taken up with these shenanigans, I can only rate half of the story,

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