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Arlington Books, London
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LibraryThing member RobertDay
A unique journal of a wartime career (of sorts), recounted as an excellent series of cartoons by a British POW. Briggs' view of service life is by turns observant, funny and pointed. Some of the observations of foreign parts are of their time (especially in the use of the 'n' word) but otherwise
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this is a unique look at a period otherwise only now known to us by old newsreels, which give very little idea of what life was really like then. Show Less
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
128 p.; 9.2 inches
ISBN
0851406653 / 9780851406657
Local notes
Sergeant Robert Briggs worked as a cartoonist in the 1930s and used that format for this account, which starts with embarkation at Liverpool in November 1940. He was captured in North Africa on 8 April 1941 and was a PoW in PG 78 Sulmona. He escaped at the Armistice and after time on the run was recaptured with four others on the Maiella near Boca di Valle. The book finishes with him being loaded on a train to Germany. While in Stalag VIIA Moosburg he compiled this journal, which was smuggled out by an escaping officer and kept by the Red Cross in Switzerland until after the war. Briggs subsequently worked as a freelance artist in advertising and died in 1983, aged 72.