For You The War Is Over

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

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

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

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

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

Battle of Britain Legend and flying 'Ace', Bob Stanford-Tuck, made his escape with his partner, Zbigniew Kustreynski, during the Long March away from Stalag Luft III, a camp in which he was to have an...

29 Heinä 202248min

Not short of a sense of humour, Lt. David James was to make an escape attempt under the pseudonym, 'I. Bugeroff'. This one is well worth a listen!For You The War Is Over is a podcast that looks at the...

15 Heinä 202249min

Ever hear the one about the two guys who escaped from a Firing Squad...? Now you can!For You The War Is Over is a podcast that looks at the real life stories of Prisoner-of-War escapes from the the Se...

8 Heinä 202227min