WWII POW Camp Provenance – Stalag VIII-B (Lamsdorf) Forestry Manual, 1942

Hanson, C. O. – Forestry for Woodmen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1942. Third Edition. Reprinted photographically in Great Britain in 1942 from sheets of the 1934 third edition. 8vo. 237[2]pp. Numerous photographic illustrations throughout. Original publisher's green cloth stamped in black with Oxford University crest to upper cover. Very Good condition; light wear to extremities, internally clean and sound. Bearing the censorship stamp "Stalag VIII B. Geprüft. Nr. 28" ("Stalag VIII-B. Examined. No. 28"), documenting the volume's passage through the censorship and library system of Stalag VIII-B, Lamsdorf (now Lambinowice, Poland), one of the largest German prisoner-of-war camps of the Second World War. Ownership signature of Donald W. Bridges. Books bearing identifiable Stalag VIII-B markings provide tangible evidence of the educational and recreational reading material available to Allied prisoners during captivity. Surviving camp-library volumes remain evocative artefacts of POW life, preserving a direct connection to one of the most significant prisoner-of-war camps operated by Germany during the war.