{"product_id":"9781805226734","title":"Out of Colditz : My Father the POW and the Nazi who Controlled his Fate","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Lascelles, David \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 24\/09\/2026,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9781805226734,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A truly revelatory story of courage, treachery, intrigue, divided loyalties and vengeance' Damien Lewis, author of SAS Great Escapes 'A gripping, unsettling journey into the strange moral fog of the war's last days - and the shadows we inherit long after' Iain MacGregor, author of The Lighthouse of StalingradThe grandson of a King. The son of the Viceroy of India. Churchill's nephew. Held captive at the notorious Colditz prisoner of war camp, they were the Prominente: scions of the British establishment, and pawns in the hands of Nazi leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a German defeat loomed, the SS head of the POW camps Gottlob Berger made a pivotal decision: he would disobey direct orders and spare their lives. 'Please remember what I have done for you when the war ends,' he asked. This Nazi overseer, who would later be convicted of war crimes, held their future in his hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighty years later, David Lascelles - the son of George, Earl of Harewood, who would never have been born if his father had been executed - traces the Prominentes' extraordinary journey and wonders who Gottlob Berger was and what motivated his fateful decision: compassion? Remorse? Or self-interest?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57412683235701,"sku":"9781805226734","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9781805226734.jpg?v=1785234294","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9781805226734","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}