DO THE BIRDS STILL SING IN HELL
Book ID/图书代码： 01930014B67808
English Summary/英文概要： An incredible true tale of one man’s courage and defiance of the German nation in the name of love
Horace "Jim" Greasley was 20 years old in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. There had been whispers and murmurs of discontent from certain quarters and the British government began to prepare for the inevitable war. After seven weeks training with the 2nd/5th Battalion Leicester, he found himself facing the might of the German army in a muddy field in Northern France, with just 30 rounds of ammunition in his weapon pouch. Horace’s war didn’t last long. He was taken prisoner on May 25th, 1940 and forced to endure a 10 week march across France and Belgium en route to Holland. Horace survived, barely, but many of his comrades were not so fortunate. Falling by the side of the road through exhaustion and malnourishment meant a bullet through the back of the head and the corpse left to rot. After a three day train journey without food and water, Horace found himself incarcerated in a prison camp in Poland. It was there he embarked on an incredible love affair with a German girl interpreting for his captors. He experienced the sweet taste of freedom each time he escaped to see her, yet incredibly he made his way back into the camp each time—sometimes two or three times a week. He broke out of the camp more than 200 times, often bringing food back to his fellow prisoners to supplement their meager rations, and toward the end of the war even managed to bring radio parts back in, allowing the BBC news to be delivered daily to more than 3,000 prisoners.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 即使在地球上最恐怖的地方，黑暗中仍然有希望。
第二次世界大戰爆發的時候，英國青年Horace Greasley才二十出頭，經過七個星期的短暫訓練後，他就被編入英國第17步兵團，被送往前線，不久後他發現自己在法國北邊的瑟堡，深陷泥淖中，和大批德軍作戰，但他僅剩下30發子彈。
1940年5月25日，他被俘虜並被送到波蘭的戰俘營，和其他熬過十個星期死亡行軍的戰俘一起，筋疲力盡、精神瀕臨崩潰，不懷一絲逃脫的希望。
但當他遇見了擔任英語翻譯的德國少女Rosa，他的人生改變了。他們像命中注定般的展開戀情，為了見她一面，Horace冒險穿越鐵絲網逃出戰俘營，並趕在點名前潛回去。他的逃脫為他的同伴們帶來了希望，同時也是對這個殘暴政權最勇敢的蔑視。
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Awards/获奖情况：A Sunday Time Bestseller, with over 60,000 copies sold, this is a moving, first-hand account of adversity and defiance and, ultimately, of love and survival.
《星期日泰晤士報》暢銷書，銷售超過六萬本。
★本書為亞馬遜暢銷書，853位讀者留言評論，74%讀者給予滿分5顆星推薦!
★Horace Greasley的故事獲國內外眾多網路媒體報導
About the Author/作者介绍： 約瑟夫•賀拉斯•格雷斯利（Horace Greasley）1918年耶誕節出生在萊斯特郡的伊布斯托克村，他在普利托利亞的農村中渡過童年，在田間勞作，並照料家畜。當賀拉斯成長為一個青少年時，希特勒開始展現他的鐵腕，並為他的帝國制定了藍圖。21歲時，賀拉斯來到法國北部的戰場上與德軍的強勢火力戰鬥。沒有多久，寡不敵眾的他就被俘虜並監禁在波蘭的集中營。
他一共被囚禁了4年又364天，獲釋後他返回英國。他當過理髮師、運輸承包商，也曾經營自己的計程車公司，他在69歲退休並與妻子移居西班牙。當他89歲時，他想要講述自己的戰時經歷，於是他被介紹給了代筆作家肯•斯科特（Ken Scott）。8個月後，賀瑞斯不為人知的故事終於在他90歲生日那天完成了。
Born Christmas Day 1918, in the village of Ibstock, Leicestershire, Joseph Horace Greasley enjoyed an idyllic childhood working the fields and tending to the animals on his father’s small holding adjacent to their terraced cottage in Pretoria Road. As Horace matured into a teenager a certain Adolf Hitler began flexing his muscles and formulated a blue print for his 1000 year Reich.
At 21 years of age Horace found himself facing the might of the German army in a field in northern France. Horace’s war did not last long and he was captured and incarcerated in the German prisoner of war camps in Upper Silesia.
He was held captive for 4 years 364 days then repatriated back to the UK. Horace has worked as a Gentleman’s hairdresser, a haulage contractor and ran his own fleet of taxis before retiring to Spain at age 69 with his wife Brenda. Horace has wanted to tell his tale of his time as a prisoner for 70 years. At 89 years of age he was introduced to the ghost writer Ken Scott.
Eight months later, ‘Do The Birds Still Sing In Hell’ Horace’s untold story was duly completed just in time for his 90th birthday.
Format:TRADE PAPERBACK
Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)
Complex/Traditional Chinese/繁体中文：AVAILABLE
Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：Film and TV rights have been optioned. / 英國紙本書銷售超過61,000本
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