The March East, 1945 draws on official and eyewitness accounts from British, Commonwealth, American and German records, as well as over 30 diaries and memoirs. It reveals a human story that unfolded over two weeks in Hesse, Thuringia and Saxony, and explains how the prisoners lived and died until their final liberation.
Complemented by 100 photographs and illustrations taken and drawn by PoW's, as well as the German instructions for camp evacuation published for the first time in English, this book provides a fascinating insight into the last days of the Second World War.