TY - JOUR AU - Rose-Innes, Harry PY - 2012/02/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - WARTIME CHRISTMASES IN FIVE COUNTRIES IN WORLD WAR II JF - Scientia Militaria - South African Journal of Military Studies JA - Sci.Mil. VL - 25 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.5787/25-2-252 UR - https://scientiamilitaria.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/252 SP - AB - 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. ER -