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.

Nafziger, George.

  • 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.
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