v, 130 pp. "I said I had a log book I would like to show her. Later, we pulled off a back shelf in the den my old, tattered "Wartime Prison Camp Log." It is cloth-covered, soiled, pencil hand-written on shiny paper, and is over fifty-four years old. Over the next several months I examined the faint old notes, often with a magnifying glass, and eventually developed this story of my experiences as a prisoner of war." "Stalag VII-A (in full: Kriegsgefangenen-Mannschafts-Stammlager VII-A) was Germany's largest prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, located just north of the town of Moosburg in southern Bavaria. The camp covered an area of 35 hectares (86 acres). It served also as a transit camp through which prisoners, including officers, were processed on their way to other camps. At some time during the war, prisoners from every nation fighting against Germany passed through it. At the time of its liberation on 29 April 1945, there were about 80,000 prisoners in the camp, mostly from France and the Soviet Union. Many others were billeted in Arbeitskommando working in factories, repairing railroads or on farms."
