There were a lot of great WW2 books of that era.
One of my favourites was "The Password is Courage", the story of a British soldier captured at Dunkirk I think, who finally found himself as a POW working at Auschwitz.
His name was something Coward.
Ps one of the heroes of Colditz was a bloke called Airey Neave who ended up as an MP murdered by the IRA.
