{"product_id":"long-road-home-book-adrian-vincent-9781913518196","title":"The Long Road Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe honest account of one prisoner-of-war's struggle to survive through five years of Nazi imprisonment. An essential book for readers of Horace Greasley, Alistair Urquhart and Heather Morris.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a cold May morning in 1940, Adrian Vincent arrived in France with his battalion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis war didn't last long. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithin five days the Siege of Calais was over and nearly all his comrades were killed, wounded or, like him, taken prisoner. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a brutal journey across the breadth of Germany, Vincent and his fellow survivors began their life in Stalag VIIIB, set to work in terrible conditions down a Polish mine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor the next five years they waged a war not against enemy soldiers, but instead versus monotony, disease, cruelty, starvation and hopelessness. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe most honest prisoner-of-war story I have read in the last ten years. \u003ci\u003eLeicester Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Vincent has the admirable intention of entertaining the reader, and this he does very successfully. His style is deft and concise. He has a nice wit and his characters emerge as life-like and life-size figures \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVincent tells his story with humour, sympathy and observation. \u003ci\u003eThe Sphere\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Long Road Home\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkably truthful memoir of what it was like to be a prisoner during the Second World War. Vincent does not portray himself or his comrades as heroes, but instead what they really were: survivors.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49569840627985,"sku":"GOR011274937","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52756325990673,"sku":"NIN9781913518196","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1913518191.jpg?v=1751186492","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/long-road-home-book-adrian-vincent-9781913518196","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}