BOOK - by ANTOINE DE ROUX, Robert Laffont éditeur - 2nd EDIT - Lot 948

BOOK - by ANTOINE DE ROUX, Robert Laffont éditeur - 2nd EDITION 1945 - 192 pages the publisher states: this work, which was banned by the Germans in the northern zone during the Occupation, could only be published in mutilated form in the southern zone. We are now publishing the complete edition and the author's full text. DIARY OF A PRISONER OF WAR. 192 pages Antoine de Roux was a prisoner of war in Stalag II D, Stargard, Pomerania. Captured in May 1940, he was released in October 1941 for health reasons. From this experience, he published - in 1942 - his "drawn diary", which retraces his journey as a captive through his commented drawings: the capture, the long march to Germany, the difficult daily life in the stalag, the return to France via the Swiss Red Cross. A captivity report which reveals the difficult life of prisoners, etc... the book ends with a color drawing - all other drawings are in black - of him walking towards a bell tower, with the tricolor flag in the background. hardcover, bound (small defect at top spine) - 24 x 17 cm.