Into Enemy Arms, Michael Hingston
Into Enemy Arms, Michael Hingston
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Into Enemy Arms
The Remarkable True Story of a German Girl's Struggle Against Nazism, and Her Daring Escape with the Allied Airman She Loved

Author: Michael Hingston

Narrator: Natasha Soudek

Unabridged: 11 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/16/2022


Synopsis

The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression, and a harrowing journey to freedom.

In 1945, Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen, in Upper Silesia. Close Jewish friends had vanished, swastikas hung from every building, and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night. At the same time more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII, a POW camp in the same region. Twenty-three of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching column—and by chance hobbled into Lossen. One among them, Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey, was the man Ditha was destined to meet and fall in love with.

Into Enemy Arms tells the extraordinary story of Ditha and the escaped POWs she helped save. Together, they embarked on a dangerous and daring flight out of Germany. As they faced exhaustion, hunger, extreme cold, and the constant risk of discovery, Ditha and Gordon's love for one another intensified, and so did their determination to survive and escape.

About Michael Hingston

Michael Hingston is a trained journalist. He spent twelve years working as a general news reporter, crime writer, and industrial correspondent before turning to public relations. Into Enemy Arms is based on his aunt Ditha's vivid recollections recorded in over a hundred hours of conversation between the two of them, as well as exhaustive research in archives to verify the facts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jamie

Not the best written book in the world, but these family books seldom are. If it were fiction it'd be a bit .... blah. But as an actual, the recolections of war and colapse, and glimpses into small history make for an interesting read. Those into their WWII might find some interest in the Soviet offens......more

Goodreads review by Shirley

Living as a German girl among the Nazi rule The book follows the life of a young German girl, Ditha, through her school years, the beginning of the war, meeting the English POWs and helping to hide them during the war to her escape during the Russian occupation to England and her marriage to the sold......more

My boss's husband wrote this book, and in spite of the fact that he is a pompous twat, it was pretty good! Compelling story, easy to read, and would make a good movie. For the history channel at least. :)......more

Goodreads review by Lorna

A must read for everyone......more