Behind the Wire: The Road to Oflag VIIB Eichstätt: The PoW Diaries of Captain John Blomfield Dixon, 1940-45

Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captive throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those of John Blomfield Dixon, whose home was in the Hertfordshire town of Ware. Having joined the Territorial Army in 1938, he soon found himself hurried through officer training and, with the outbreak of the Second World War, being commissioned as a subaltern, attached to the East Riding Yeomanry.

Following his death in 2013, hi...