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January 26th, 2007 by Mark Simpson
‘Achtung Schweinehund! A Boy’s Own Story of Imaginary Combat’, Harry Pearson (Little, Brown) By Mark Simpson Independent on Sunday, 21/01/07 When I was a boy in the languorous 1970s I looked forward to Christmas not just for the prezzies but the boredom that only cold turkey and just three
TV channels could produce. I calculated that the more bored everyone was the more chance there was that they might succumb to my outlandish, vaguely indecent suggestion: ‘Let’s play Escape from Colditz!’
‘Oh, no! Not Escape From Colditz!! Posted in commentary, review | 1 comment
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Ian:
February 8th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Have you still got ‘Escape from Colditz’? My brother had it and my parents have kept it. It sounds like we got to play the game more than you had the chance to. I don’t remember us arguing about who was going to be the Germans. That would be like arguing over who would be black and who would be white when playing checkers. The Germans were black and the Dutch were orange. I always wanted to be the Dutch if I wasn’t the Germans.