Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #199795 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-25
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Soldier Magazine
'Colin Rushton's masterly account of Arthur Dod's nightmarish experinces in Auschwitz...is a harrowing addition to public knowledge of the holocaust.'

Synopsis
Arthur Dodd, a British soldier, spent two years of the Second World war in a beautiful village in Upper Silesia, Poland; to the Poles the place was known as Oswiecim. The Germans called it Auschwitz. Auschwitz was not just a camp for those that the Third Reich deemed "undesirables", hundreds of British Tommies were also incarcerated there and witnessed the atrocities meted out by Hitler's brutal SS. This is the true story of one of these spectators.

From the Author
A brief precis.
This incredible true wartime story charts the path through the 2nd World War of a crippled English lad, 20 years of age in December 1939 and totally unfit for active service. This same crippled patriot was one of the last Allied soldiers to escape from mainland Europe on June the 12th 1940, a full 8 days after the miracle of Dunkirk. Arthur Dodd subsequently saw action in North Africa before Rommel consigned him to P.O.W. status for the duration of hostilities. Camps in Italy were the prelude to 22 months in the satanic death camp of Auschwitz, witnessing a distant age of slavery so horrific that men plunged catastrophically into insanity and suicide. Prisoner 221925 Dodd never stopped fighting the war, engaging in sabotage and escaping to help Polish Partisans blow up part of the Camp. Divine intervention saved him from a firing squad bullet prior to a 700 mile death march to the West in temperatures as low as 22 degrees below freezing. A female Polish patriot, after showing him one particularly harrowing incident, implored him to tell the outside world of this hell hole should he ever reach home. Back in England nobody would listen, nobody wanted to know. "Spectator in Hell" is his belated compliance with that request. Arthur Dodd still lives with his memories in 1998. I am both honoured and privileged to have written " Spectator in Hell", which should be read by all generations in order to guard against Man ever plunging to the depths of these inhumanities again. I am sure Amazon books will do their utmost to spread the word.