Prisoner of War During World War II Recounts the Way it Really Was

Vaughan was a soldier captured at Tobruk in 1942. A PoW in PG 65 Gravina-Altamura near Bari. After Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 he was moved north to PG 53 Sforzacosta. Escaped briefly at the Armistice but recaptured and moved to Germany. ‘Having seen films about prisoner of war life giving, in my opinion, a totally inaccurate and glamourised picture, I felt I wanted to set the record straight. It was not at all glamorous, it was squalid with very little light relief or humour, and it was completely demoralising.’