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  Escape and evasion in Occupied Europe

  Most of the British servicemen taken prisoner by the Axis powers during the Second World War were not liberated until spring 1945. In contrast, a small number escaped from Prisoner of War camps and thousands more evaded capture, eventually making ...

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  The Great Escape

  This videocast is part of the War on Film series, created by The National Archives to mark the 70th anniversary of the Second World War. The series recounts the events that went on to inspire popular war films, using extracts ...

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  Voices of the Armistice: prisoner of war

  Account by Able Seaman C Jones about conditions as a prisoner of war after his capture at Antwerp in 1914. Original document catalogue reference: WO 161/100/576

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  • Foreign Office and Cabinet Office file release: May 2013

    22 May 2013

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    Australia in War and Peace, 1914-19

    10 May 2013

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    The Journey’s End Battalion: The 9th East Surrey and R C Sherriff in the Great War

    3 May 2013

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