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...over the weekend Gene's fingers began to burn. Monday morning he announced that he would leave the floggers in prison...
...Blue lines and captured Hugh Drum as he drove along a highway with only his aide and chauffeur. By bluster and guile the lieutenant general persuaded his captor, a young captain, to turn him loose. Grumped a ranker to the gullible youngster: "You should have taken him to the prison camp." But the fact remained that Hugh Drum, by this and many another dodge that might have been employed against a real enemy, had won a battle...
...course no soldier-general, captain, or sergeant-can see the whole picture. I fought with the 21st Foreign Volunteers, and it was one regiment among thousands. But the prison camp at Dieuze gave me an opportunity to talk with members of scores of other units in the French army; and their stories convinced me that our regiment's experience was much closer to the typical than the unique...
From the German prison camp designated as Stalag XX a British soldier wrote to his small daughter...
Better 'Ole. In Anamosa, Iowa, a paroled convict pondered the state of the world, asked to be readmitted to prison, got an extra 15 months...