Quote Originally Posted by rwanttaja View Post
I really recommend Brickhill's book. He talks about some who broke, but a lot more about how the others coped. He goes a lot into what it was like in the camps, and why the POWs were (mostly) so anxious to escape.
After I posted this, I remembered the very first paragraph of the book:

Prison camp life would have not been so bad if:

(a) It weren't such an indefinite sentence. At times you couldn't say you wouldn't still be there (or worse) in ten years.

(b) The Germans didn't keep dropping hints that if they lost, Hitler was going to shoot you anyway, just to even the score.

(c) You could get enough food to fill your belly again. Just once.

- Paul Brickhill, Foreword to The Great Escape

Ron Wanttaja