{"product_id":"hitlers-last-army-robin-quinn-9780752482750","title":"Hitler's Last Army: German POWs in Britain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing original research, previously unseen photographs, and interviews with former POWs and their wives, this is the story of the half-million German prisoners-of-war held captive in Britain during and after World War II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdolf Hitler would have given anything to see such headlines in 1940 as these: \"500,000 Enemy Troops on British Soil!\" Five years later, half a million German soldiers, sailors, and airmen did find themselves in the UK--but as prisoners of the British government. Using recently declassified documents, this book reveals how Britain--in defiance of the Geneva Convention--went on to detain these men for a further three years, and used them for forced labor. As new interviews within these pages show, some Germans were surprised to discover a freedom unknown in their homeland: \"I felt like a guest . . . not any more a POW. I could hardly imagine that they had been my enemy.\" But behind the barbed wire, Nazis terrorized non-Nazis, guards sometimes maltreated their prisoners, and British girls who married ex-POWs faced bitter recriminations: \"Falling pregnant outside marriage was bad enough--but with a German POW!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robin Quinn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0752482750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780752482750\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Robin Quinn","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46052197138687,"sku":"9780752482750","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5cf864db-eb7f-43ba-b8b5-dfe6a9d5e3a3.jpg?v=1723555621","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hitlers-last-army-robin-quinn-9780752482750","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}