OUT OF COLDITZ

A truly revelatory story of courage treachery intrigue divided loyalties and vengeance Damien Lewis author of SAS Great Escapes A gripping unsettling journey into the strange moral fog of the war s last days and the shadows we inherit long after Iain MacGregor author of The Lighthouse of StalingradThe grandson of a King The son of the Viceroy of India Churchill s nephew Held captive at the notorious Colditz prisoner of war camp they were the Prominente scions of the British establishment and pawns in the hands of Nazi leaders As a German defeat loomed the SS head of the POW camps Gottlob Berger made a pivotal decision he would disobey direct orders and spare their lives Please remember what I have done for you when the war ends he asked This Nazi overseer who would later be convicted of war crimes held their future in his hands Eighty years later David Lascelles the son of George Earl of Harewood who would never have been born if his father had been executed traces the Prominentes extraordinary journey and wonders who Gottlob Berger was and what motivated his fateful decision compassion Remorse Or self interest