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This issue, we are giving away three copies of Captive Audience: life, laughs and love in a Second World War POW camp by Paul Johnson.
Lieutenant John Blomfield Dixon, of the East Riding Yeomanry, was 20 years old when he was captured near the village of Watou, Belgium, on 31 May 1940 during the retreat to Dunkirk. During his time in captivity, he recorded the highs and lows of life at numerous POW camps in a series of diaries.
Paul Johnson explores Dixon’s experiences: his military service and capture, camp life, the efforts to escape, the killing of comrades, his hatred of both captors and captives, his participation in many theatrical performances, a forbidden love, and his eventual return home.
This issue, three lucky winners will each receive a copy of the book, courtesy of Amberley Publishing. To find out more about the publisher, please visit http://www.amberley-books.com.
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Our caption competition continues online. Find out more at http://www.military-history.org.
CROSSWORD
Across
7 British general, commander of the 1st Airborne Division 1944-1945 (8)
9 Royal Navy Odin-class submarine launched in 1928 (6)
10 Eritrean city where Italian forces surrendered to the British in 1941 (6)
11 Spartan admiral killed at the Battle of Haliartus (8)
12 Battle fought in Kentucky in August 1862 (8)
13 Visigoth king who sacked Rome in AD 410 (6)
14 George de Lacy ___, commander of the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain during the First Carlist War (5)
16 Asian city entered in August 1904 by British troops led by Edward Younghusband (5)
21 Mexican revolutionary who overthrew the dictator Porfirio Díaz (6)
23 Battle fought in Sudan in 1898 (8)
25 Early jet bomber built by English Electric (8)
26 Light medieval helmet (6)
27 British general killed at Waterloo (6)
28 Site of two battles of the American War of Independence, fought in September and October 1777 (8)
Down
1 Saint on whose day the Battle of Agincourt was fought (7)
2 Cossack who led a rebellion in Russia in 1773-1775 (8)
3 ___ Code Talkers, Native American US Marines who developed a code based on their own language (6)
4 Battle of the Seven Years War fought in November 1757 (8)
5 City besieged by the Ottomans in 1529 and 1683 (6)
6 African country where a civil war was fought from 1967 to 1970 (7)
8 Spanish city taken from the Moors by Alfonso VI in 1085 (6)
15 Air base in Vietnam used by the 14th Air Commando Wing USAF from 1966 to 1969 (3,5)
17 Russian infantryman of the 16th to 18th century (8)
18 German admiral and chief of military intelligence in WWII (7)
19 Battle fought in 1526 in which the Ottomans defeated the Hungarians (6)
20 Battle fought in northern Italy in June 1800 (7)
22 James ___, Indian Army officer and later general after whom a city in Pakistan is named (6)
24 ___ Storm, operation against Iraq following the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 (6)
ANSWERS
Across: 7 Urquhart, 9 Osiris, 10 Asmara, 11 Lysander, 12 Richmond, 13 Alaric, 14 Evans, 16 Lhasa, 21 Zapata, 23 Omdurman, 25 Canberra, 26 Sallet, 27 Picton, 28 Saratoga.
Down: 1 Crispin, 2 Pugachev, 3 Navajo, 4 Rossbach, 5 Vienna, 6 Nigeria,8 Toledo, 15 Nha Trang, 17 Strelitz, 18 Canaris, 19 Mohacs, 20 Marengo, 22 Abbott, 24 Desert.
