Dvr. JWH Martin (with Special Guest, John West)
For this episode we were joined by John West, who runs the 140 Artillery Regt website (http://140th-field-regiment-ra-1940.co.uk/), to talk about Driver John William Henry Martin, who was in the same...
16 Joulu 202234min
Fl/Lt GH Lonnberg
The only Swede who was to escape as a prisoner of war, there were some similarities between the escapes of Sam Derry and Lonnberg. However, despite being Swedish, he made for Switzerland rather than t...
9 Joulu 202227min
2/Lt PFS Douglas
Captured in the aftermath of Dunkirk, Douglas was treated appallingly during his time in Nazi hands, he eventually escaped from Stalag XXI D, in Posen, making his way to Sweden via Danzig.For You The ...
2 Joulu 202237min
F/Sgt CB Flockhart
Cyril Bruce Flockhart was to spend some time being held by both the SS and the Gestapo for his escape attempts. Despite this he eventually escaped from Heydekrug, meeting the Polish resistance and mad...
25 Marras 202242min
Fus. J Purvis
Fusilier Joseph Purvis was captured not long after Dunkirk, and spent three years in captivity before eventually making good his escape, via Switzerland, before returning to France after D-Day when Fr...
18 Marras 202227min
Fl/Lt. JTL Shore
To kick off our new series, we look at the escape of Fl/Lt Shore who wasted no time at all getting stuck into escaping, remaining a POW only a matter of months before successfully making his way to Sw...
11 Marras 202236min
Series 5 Intro
Welcome to Series 5 of For You The War Is Over. We are delighted to be able to bring you another twelve brand new episodes. As ever we look at some brilliant escape stories, many of them less well kno...
7 Marras 20222min
Maj. S Derry: The Rome Escape Organisation (with Special Guest, Claire Derry)
We were joined by Claire Derry to talk about her father, Major Sam Derry, who wasn't just satisfied with managing to escape from a moving train, he would go on the run an entire escape organisation, a...
5 Elo 20221h 5min
