Vivian Phillips' journal, alongside his war medals, fetched £13,500 at auction A journal written by a prisoner of war in the true story behind the film The Great Escape has sold at auction for £ ...
On April 12, 1943, flying officer John Colwell, a young RCAF navigator, disembarked from the railway station in Sagan, ...
Marcel Zillessen was shot down while flying a Hurricane in north Africa and taken prisoner in 1943 The diary of a World War Two prisoner who inspired one of the characters in The Great Escape film ...