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The suspenseful true story of a love that defied Nazi oppression and a harrowing journey to freedom

In 1945 Ditha Bruncel was living with her parents in the small town of Lossen in Upper Silesia Close Jewish friends had vanished swastikas hung from every building and neighbors were disappearing in the middle of the night At the same time more than fifteen hundred British and Commonwealth airmen were being marched out of Stalag Luft VII a POW camp in the same region Twentythree of these prisoners managed to escape from the marching columnand by chance hobbled into Lossen One among them Warrant Officer Gordon Slowey was the man Ditha was destined to meet and fall in love with

Into Enemy Arms tells the extraordinary story of Ditha and the escaped POWs she helped save Together they embarked on a dangerous and daring flight out of Germany As they faced exhaustion hunger extreme cold and the constant risk of discovery Ditha and Gordons love for one another intensified and so did their determination to survive and escape