Fond Recollections of Captivity

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Captured on the Western Front at the end of World War II, Horst Jarka went from Nazi soldier to a prisoner of war in Wales. This collection of excerpts from the journal Jarka kept at the time, as well as letters to and from his family and friends, is accompanied by his later reflections on the year he spent as a POW. This astonishing memoir offers a remarkable and insightful account of the treatment he received from his humane, literate, and critical-thinking Welsh custodians and a warm tribute to the profound and positive ways in which that experience transformed the course of his life.