Black Camp 21 by Invoice Jones
My score: 4 of 5 stars
Black Camp 21 is a World Battle Two story impressed by a few of Britain’s prisoner of battle camps that have been constructed to accommodate the 1000’s of German troopers who have been captured within the months after the D-Day landings.
That is the story of tank driver and SS Officer Max. After his seize he’s shipped to England and brought to London the place he and a number of other different SS officers are interrogated. They’re then despatched to a big camp in Devizes, however are saved separate from different German teams. Feared even amongst their fellow troopers, the SS are given black circles to indicate them.
Max discovers that the safety and fencing are lax in Devizes and he’s a part of a mass break-out plan. Nonetheless, the British aren’t as blind to the planning of the operation because the Germans suppose.
Later Max is taken to Scotland together with a number of the extra harmful prisoners. This camp is infamous for the inner self-discipline that the Germans meter out themselves on their fellow camp mates.
This was an uncommon battle story and the creator’s notes describe the documented loss of life of an inmate at Black Camp 21 that impressed the entire thought. The creator had additionally visited the camp which, I imagine, nonetheless has some remnants left at the moment. It’s fairly a darkish story with a number of twists, however it units a superb tempo and has sufficient stress and intrigue to maintain the pages turning.
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Guide Description:
Throughout Britain, POW camps are filling up with defeated German troopers. Day by day, 1000’s extra pour in on ships from France. However solely essentially the most harmful are despatched to Camp 21 – ‘black’ prisoners – SS diehards who’ve sworn loss of life earlier than give up. Nothing will cease their battle, until it’s a bullet.
As one fanatic plots a mass breakout and superb march on London, Max Hartmann desires of the oath he pledged to the teenage bride he scarcely is aware of and the kid he’s by no means met. The place do his loyalties actually lie? To Hitler or to the life he left behind within the bombed ruins of his homeland?
Beneath the wintry mountains, within the hell of Black Camp 21, suspicion and worry swirl round just like the infinite snow. And whereas the Reich crumbles – and his brutal companions plan their assault – Max’s hardest battle is simply simply starting.
Impressed by terrifying precise occasions, Black Camp 21 takes readers on a gut-wrenching journey from the battlefields of France to its surprising climax in a camp which nonetheless stands at the moment.
