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Finding Stefan - Colin's Story (Paperback)
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Finding Stefan - Colin's Story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R321
Discovery Miles 3 210
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The extraordinary story of how a Derbyshire coal miner survived as
an escaped POW in occupied Poland by posing as a deaf-mute for
three years. A few years before Colin Marshall died in 1993 he
wrote his story and gave it to his daughter Hazel. She knew he'd
had an extraordinary life but she read things he had never talked
about, and it seemed part of another world. Years later, after
Hazel's mother Nancy died, Hazel found tucked away in a cupboard,
unseen letters, postcards and photographs that her mother had saved
from Colin's time in Poland during WWII. As a tribute to her dad
and the Polish people who helped him, Hazel decided to turn it into
a book. This true story takes the reader from Colin growing-up in a
Derbyshire mining village in the 1920s: starting work at the local
colliery, joining the Lincolnshire Regiment of the Royal Engineers,
being called-up at the outbreak of war, captured at Dunkirk and
escaping from a POW camp in Poland - to being befriended by a
Polish family, in a village occupied by German soldiers. Unable at
that time to speak Polish, he posed as a deaf-mute for three years
to avoid capture. Any slip-up and Colin knew that his Polish
friends would be shot. It is a story of courage and determination
and of two Polish families who risked their lives in order to save
others.
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