{"product_id":"out-of-colditz-24th-sept","title":"Out of Colditz (24th Sept)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e : My Father the POW and the Nazi who Controlled his Fate\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe grandson of a King. The son of the Viceroy of India. Churchill's nephew.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHeld captive at the notorious Colditz prisoner of war camp, they were the Prominente: scions of the British establishment, and pawns in the hands of Nazi leaders. As a German defeat loomed, the SS head of the POW camps Gottlob Berger made a pivotal decision: he would disobey direct orders and spare their lives. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Please remember what I have done for you when the war ends,' he asked.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Nazi overseer, who would later be convicted of war crimes, held their future in his hands. Eighty years later, David Lascelles - the son of George, Earl of Harewood, who would never have been born if his father had been executed - traces the Prominentes' extraordinary journey and wonders who Gottlob Berger was and what motivated his fateful decision: compassion? Remorse? Or self-interest?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A truly revelatory story of courage, treachery, intrigue, divided loyalties and vengeance' Damien Lewis, author of SAS Great Escapes \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'A gripping, unsettling journey into the strange moral fog of the war's last days - and the shadows we inherit long after' Iain MacGregor, author of The Lighthouse of Stalingrad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book House (Thame)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56136798929281,"sku":null,"price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0280\/7873\/5421\/files\/9781805226734.jpg?v=1787160982","url":"https:\/\/shop.thebookhousethame.co.uk\/products\/out-of-colditz-24th-sept","provider":"The Book House Thame","version":"1.0","type":"link"}