Hitler's Last Army (German POWs In Britain)

These defeated men in their tattered uniforms were, in every sense, Hitler’s Last Army. 

Britain used the prisoners as an essential labour force, especially in agriculture, and in the devastating winter of 1947 the Germans helped avert a national disaster by clearing snow and stemming floods, working shoulder to shoulder with the same Allied troops they once thought of as enemies. 

Slowly, friendships were forged between those self same former enemies. 

Some POWs fell in love with British & Canadian women, though such relationships were often frowned upon by those in officialdom: 

"Falling pregnant outside marriage was bad enough – but with a German POW …!'' 

Using exclusive interviews with former prisoners, as well as extensive archive material, this book looks at the Second World War from a fresh perspective – that of Britain’s German prisoners, from the shock of being captured to their final release long after the war had ended.

Originally Published 2014, this is the 2015 Digital Rerelease Version of the book.