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
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors, copyright holders, may use the publishers version for teaching purposes, in books, theses, dissertations, conferences and conference papers.
A copy of the authors’ publishers version may also be hosted on the following websites:
- Non-commercial personal homepage or blog.
- Institutional webpage.
- Authors Institutional Repository.
The following notice should accompany such a posting on the website: “This is an electronic version of an article published in Scientia Militaria, Volume XXX, number XXX, pages XXX–XXX”, DOI. Authors should also supply a hyperlink to the original paper or indicate where the original paper (http://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za) may be found.
Authors publishers version, affiliated with the Stellenbosch University will be automatically deposited in the University’s’ Institutional Repository SUNScholar.
Articles as a whole, may not be re-published with another journal.
The following license applies:
