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Fond Recollections of Captivity: An Austrian POW in Wales Travel Reference requires that we reckon withCaptured on the Western Front at the end of World War II, Horst Jarka went from Nazi soldier to a prisoner of war in Wales. This collection of excerpts from the journal Jarka kept at the time, as well as letters to and from his family and friends, is accompanied by his later reflections on the year he spent as a POW. This astonishing memoir offers a remarkable and insightful account of the treatment he received from his humane, literate, and critical