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.

“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, “What was it like?” 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.”