Chas describes life as a prisoner during WWII. He tells of the treatments of the prisoners by the Germans vs. the Italians, of the tensions among the prisoners, of the kind of work the men did and the kind of food they ate. He tells of getting into a fist fight with a guard, being discovered in an escape attempt, standing before a firing squad, and smuggling food into the barracks.
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