My Underground War

This is a gripping yarn of capture, resistance, and liberation, revealing for the first time how a young soldier in the Royal Engineers and a close-knit group of chums carried on the war despite their imprisonment, and even got away with killing a couple of Nazi guards who had ruthlessly bullied frail prisoners. That young soldier, Albert Edward Clack, was my father.

The first part of this book covers his capture near Dunkirk in 1940 and his nearly five years in the Stalag VIIIB prisoner-of-...