WARTIME CHRISTMASES IN FIVE COUNTRIES IN WORLD WAR II
Abstract
This article is a first-person account of six wartime Christmases spent in no less than five countries: Kenya, Libya, Italy, Germany and, finally, South Africa. The writer, a gunner with the Second South African Division, was captured at Tobruk and spent the remaining three years of the war, with the exception of short periods of escape, as a prisoner of war.Copyright (c) 2018 Harry Rose-Innes

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