Niemann, D. — Birds in a Cage
Short Books London 312, col and b/w illus. . HB. Fine in d/w.. Concerns the true story of the, British army officer John Buxton who found an unexpected means of escape from the horrors of internment at Warburg PoW camp, during the Second World War. Buxton and Peter Conder, founded a secret birdwatching society.Derek Niemann draws on original diaries, letters and drawings, to tell of how Conder, John Barrett, George Waterston and Buxton were forged by their wartime experience to become giants of postwar wildlife conservation.. [9781780720937]