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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Aug 20221h 5min
W/Cmdr RR Stanford-Tuck & F/Lt Z Kustreynski
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 Jul 202248min
Lt. DP James
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 Jul 202249min
Cpl. S Vaculik & Cpl. T Jones
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 Jul 202227min
L/Cpl. WA Richards
L/Cpl. Richards was very good at getting out and staying out, but never quite made it home in four attempts. However, his fifth escape effort would see him fighting in the forests of Poland before he ...
1 Jul 202231min
