Bücher von Giles Romilly

Giles Romilly (1917 - 1967) was a journalist who was a war correspondent during both the Spanish Civil War and in the Second World War. It was whilst covering the Norwegian Campaign that he was captured by the Germans in Narvik in 1940. He became the first of Hitler's Prominente prisoners at Colditz - he was a nephew of Winston Churchill through his wife Clementine. During the transfer of the Prominente from Colditz, in the face of the advancing allies, he managed to escape with the aid of a Dutch officer. He died in California in 1967. Michael Alexander (1920 - 2004) was captured whilst operating with a commando unit behind the German lines in front of El Alamein. He convinced the Germans that he was closely related to General Alexander; and so was sent to join the Prominente at Colditz Castle. He was amongst a group of these men who Hitler ordered to be executed, amongst the last of the instructions to emerge from his bunker in Berlin and his own death. Eventually, he was handed over to American troops in Innsbruck. After the war he enjoyed a mixed career as a writer, an adventurer and a restaurateur.