Bibliography of Colditz Castle
Bibliography of Colditz Castle is a list of works about Colditz Castle, its history as POW camp Oflag IV-C, the attempts to escape Oflag IV-C and many prisoners memoirs.
Books in whole or in part about Colditz POW camp
| Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date (original publication) | Language (original) | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baybutt, Ron | Camera in Colditz | London: Holder and Stoughton | 1982 [UK] | English | Johannes Lange was a longtime Colditz town resident who took the escape attempt photographs. |
| Baybutt, Ron | Colditz: The Great Escapes | Boston: Little, Brown | 1983 [US] | English | |
| Booker, Michael | Collecting Colditz and Its Secrets: A Unique Pictorial Record of Life Behind the Walls | London: Grub Street | 2005 | English | Michael Booker is an avid UK collector of Colditz memorabilia. |
| Bräuer, A. Peter and Gerhard Weber | Colditz: Sächsische Stadt im Herzen Europas | Bonn: Pontes | 1990 | German | A detailed history of Colditz town and castle. |
| Brickhill, Paul | Reach for the Sky: The Story of Douglas Bader, Legless Ace of the Battle of Britain | New York: W.W. Norton | 1954 | English | Paul Brickhill was a former POW and author of The Great Escape. |
| Le Brigant, General | Les Indomptables | Paris: Berger-Levrault | 1948 | French | An early account from the French perspective |
| Champ, Jack and Colin Burgess | The Diggers of Colditz | Kenthurst: Kangaroo | 1997 | English | Jack Champ was an Australian Colditz POW. |
| Chancellor, Henry | Colditz: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes | London: Hodder and Stoughtton | 2001 | English | Tells prisoners' own stories based on interviews with many of them. |
| Davies-Scourfield, Gris | In Presence of my Foes: A Memoir of Calais, Colditz, and Wartime Escape Adventures | London: Wilton | 1991 | English | Gris Davies-Scourfield was a Colditz POW. |
| Dunn, David | Colditz: A Visitor's Historical Guide: Based on the Book, Colditz: The Inside Story | Wakefield, UK: Lindley Printers | no date | English | Dunn was a Colditz tour guide. |
| Eggers,Reinhold (Translated and edited by Howard Gee) | Colditz: The German Story. | London: Robert Hale | 1961 [UK] | English | Reinhold Eggers was a Colditz duty officer and later Security officer from November 1940 to April 1945. Howard Gee was a journalist and was one of only two civilian prisoners at Colditz. |
| Eggers, Reinhold (Edited by John Watton) | Escape From Colditz: 16 First-Hand Accounts | London: Robert Hale | 1973 | English | Reinhold Eggers was a Colditz duty officer and later Security officer from November 1940 to April 1945. |
| Green, Julius Morris | From Colditz in Code | London: Robert Hale | 1971 | English | Julius Morris Green was a Colditz POW. |
| Gigues, Frédéric | Colditz, 1941-1943 | Private Publication | 1971? | French? | Guigues was a French POW at Colditz |
| Harewood, Lord | Tongs And Bones: The Memoirs of Lord Harewood | London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson | 1981 | English | Lord Harewood, George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, was a Colditz 'Prominenten' POW. |
| Hartog, Leo de | Officieren achter prikkeldraad | Baarn: Hollandia | 1983 | Dutch | De Hartog was a Dutch POW and describes the story of Dutch officers in POW camps including Colditz. |
| Larive, E.H. | The Man Who Came in from Colditz | London: Robert Hale | 1975 | English | Larive was a Dutch Colditz POW. |
| Lockwood, Kenneth | Colditz: A Pictorial History | London: Caxton | 2001 | English | Kenneth Lockwood, Colditz POW, edits this mostly then (and now) picture book. |
| Mackenzie, S.P | Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany, The | Oxford: Oxford University Press | 2004 | English | In this scholarly survey, Mackenzie compares Colditz to other POW camps |
| Macintyre, Ben | Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison | Penguin Random House | 2022 | English | Macintyre describes the full range of population, emotions, and class issues at Colditz, without triumphalism |
| Morison, Walter | Flak and Ferrets: One Way to Colditz | London: Sentinel | 1995 | English | Walter Morison was a British POW sent to Colditz for trying to steal a German airplane after escaping from Stalag Luft III. |
| Neave, Airey | They Have Their Exits | Boston: Little, Brown & Company | 1953 | English | Airey Neave was the first British Colditz escapee, and a MI9 member. |
| Pringle, Jack | Colditz Last Stop: Eleven Prisons, Four Countries, Six Escapes | London: William Kimber | 1988 | English | Jack Pringle was a Colditz POW. |
| Reid, Miles | Into Colditz | Salisbury: Michael Russell | 1983 | English | Miles Reid was a WWI veteran and the oldest British prisoner in Colditz. He escaped by feigning illness and getting himself repatriated. |
| Reid, Pat | The Colditz Story. | London: Hodder and Stoughton | 1952 | English | Patrick Reid was a British inmate and escapee. This was his first book and it is the basis for the UK TV Series Colditz, which ran from October, 1972 until April, 1974. |
| Reid, Pat | Latter Days at Colditz, The [also published as Men of Colditz] | London: Hodder and Stoughton | 1953 | English | Reid's second book tells of the period after his escape, based on interviews with remaining POWs |
| Reid, Pat | Escape from Colditz: The Two Classic Escape Stories-The Colditz Story and Men of Colditz-in one Volume | New York: J.B. Lippincott & Co. | ? | English | Combines Reid's first two books. |
| Reid, Pat | Colditz: The Full Story | London: Hodder and Stoughton | 1984 | English | Reid's last book in his Colditz trilogy. |
| Reid, Pat | Prisoner of War: The inside Story of the POW from the Ancient World to Colditz and after | New York: Beaufort Books Publishers | 1984 | English | General survey of POWs through history, including at Colditz |
| Rogers, Jim | Tunneling into Colditz: A Mining Engineer in Captivity. | London: Robert Hale | 1985 | English | Jim Rogers was a Colditz POW. |
| Romilly, Gilles and Michael Alexander | The Privileged Nightmare (Reissued as Hostages of Colditz, New York: Praeger, 1973) | not stated | 1954 | English | Giles Romilly and Michael Alexander were both 'Prominenten' Colditz POWs. |
| Schädlich, Thomas, ed. | Colditzer Schloßgeschichten: Die Geschichte des Oflag IV C in Colditz nach dem Tagebuch des Georg Martin Schädlich | Colditz: Swing Druck GmbH | 1992 | German | Based on the diary of Georg Martin Schädlich, Colditz guard and 'keeper of the keys' |
| Schädlich, Thomas, ed. (Translation by Wolfgang Ansorge) | Tales from Colditz Castle | Colditz: Thomas Schädlich | 2003 | English | Translation of the diary of Georg Martin Schädlich |
| Sternberg, Antony | Vie de Chateau et Oflags de Discipline: Souvenirs de Captivité (Colditz) | Paris: self-published | 1960 | French | Offers a view of life from the perspective of French Jewish officers |
| Warren, C.E.T., and James Benson | Will Not We Fear: The Story of H.M. Submarine Seal and of Lieutenant Commander Rupert Lonsdale. | London: George G. Harrap | 1961 | English | Rupert Lonsdale was a Colditz POW. |
| Wood, J.E.R., editor | Detour: The Story of Oflag IVC | London: The Falcon Press | 1946 | English | Edited by a Canadian POW, this was the first postwar book about Colditz to be published. It was illustrated by Lieut. J.F. Watton. |
| Ziminski, Wladyslaw | Colditz-Dossel ou Le Refus de le Captivite 1940-1943 | Pontarlier: Imcopa Faivre | 1976 | French | Polish POW Ziminski was transferred to Oflag VI-B in Dossel in 1943. |
Other books (where Colditz is at least mentioned)
Bader, Douglas.
- Reach for the Sky. London, Glasgow, Collins Books, 1954.
Barry, Rupert.
- "The First Escape of the War." [Escape from Laufen in 1940]
Cash, William.
- "Escape to Colditz". The Spectator, (7 April 1990), pp. 14-15.
Gleeson, Janet.
- The Arcanum: The Extraordinary True Story. New York: Warner Books, 1998.
Graham, Burton.
- Escape from the Nazis. Secaucus, New Jersey: Castle Books, 1975.
Langer, Herbert.
- The Thirty Years' War. Translated by C.S.V. Salt. New York: Dorset Press, 1978, 1990.
Marshall Cavendish Corporation.
- Escape from the Swastika. London: Marshall Cavendish Books, 1975.
McAvoy, George E.
- A Citizen-Soldier Remembers, 1942-1946: 149th Armored Signal Company of the 9th Armored Division. Littleton, New Hamspire, Crawford Press, 1991.
McCombs, Don, and Fred L. Worth.
- World War II: 4,139 Strange and Fascinating Facts. New York: Wing Books, 1983.
Melton, H. Keith.
- The Ultimate Spy Book. New York: DK Publishing, 1996.
Mills, John.
- Up in the Clouds, Gentlemen Please. New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1981.
- Lutzen & Bautzen: Napoleon's Spring Campaign of 1813. Chicago, Illinois: Emperor's Press, 1992.
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- Napoleon at Leipzig: The Battle of Nations, 1813. Chicago, Illinois: Emperor's Press, 1996.
"Official Reports from the Camps: Oflag IVC, Colditz".
- The Prisoner of War: The Official Journal of the Prisoner of War Department of the Red Cross and St. John War Organization, St. James Palace, London S.W.1., Volume 3, Number 35 (March, 1945), pp. 10.
Petre, F. Loraine.
- Napoleon's Last Campaign in Germany, 1813. New York: John Lane Company, 1962.
Rabb, Theodore K.
- Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age. New York: Pantheon Books, 1993. [Chapter on Jan Hus]
Ramsden, John.
- "Refocusing 'the People's War': British War Films of the 1950s". Journal of Contemporary History, Volume 33, Number 1 (January 1998), pp. ?
Schumann, Robert.
- [Many of the numerous books about Robert and Clara Schumann]
Shoemaker, Lloyd R.
- The Escape Factory: The Story of MIS-X. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.