Crocker, Stuart, — FOREIGN SHORES - A True Story.

Matador, Leicester, ND (copyright 2010), trade paperback, [vi], 361pp, photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the experiences of a young German, brought up in Germany during the unstable economic times that brought the Nazis to power he joined the Hitler Youth and in 1943 at the age of seventeen was called up to the armed forces, underwent training as a member of the parachute regiment and was posted to northern France, was wounded during the Allied invasion and received medical treatment on Guernsey before being taken prisoner and shipped to England as a POW when the island was liberated. After working in England for a while he visited his parents and family in Germany but was disappointed with his reception and returned to live in England, lightly rubbed at tips, near fine,