Roberts, T

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Trevor Roberts

Family/Last name:
Roberts
Forename(s) and initial(s):
Trevor
Nationality:
British
Service number:
1492876
Military Unit:
British Army, Royal Artillery, 2nd Searchlight Regiment RA
Place of capture:
France
POW number:
15765
Camp
Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf / Stalag 344
Working Party
E3 Arbeitskommando Blechammer
Data sources
Other Sources (Relative Report)
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We wrote to you in May about us publishing a combined version of two books that my uncle, Trevor Roberts, wrote about his time as a PoW at work camp E3, how he came to be there and the walk to freedom after release. You were kind enough to say you would publicise the book on the Lamsdorf website.

Trevor chose not to put pen to paper until 50 years after the war. He published formally his first book, ‘800 Lives’, and self-published the second, ‘260 Sundays’. His great nephew, Adam K Dean, decided to compile the two works and republish them online on VE Day, May 2020, 75 years after the end of the war.

The print version of ‘800 Lives – For Us The War Was Over’ has now been published and I attach a photograph of the cover.

“A very interesting first-hand account of what it meant to be a working prisoner-of-war of the Germans for five years during WWII. The book contains tragedy and humour. The author shows particularly well the many schemes – capers, he calls them – devised by the British to maintain morale, and, wherever possible, frustrate the German war effort. This is a fine tale of resilience in the face of great odds.”

Lois (and Adam)

 

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