The Music Maker: How One POW Provided Hope for Thousands

by Jaci Byrne

On 8 May 1945, 46-year-old Drum Major Jackson staggered towards his American liberators. Emaciated, dressed in rags, his decayed boots held together with string, he'd been force-marched for twenty days over the Austrian Alps after five heinous years as a POW in Nazi labour camps. He collapsed into his liberators' arms, clinging to his only meaningful possession--his war diary.

Having already experienced the horrific nature of battle in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152675486X
• ISBN13: 9781526754868
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"