A former BBC researcher from Osterley has published a novel inspired by her late father-in-law's ordeal as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. Estella McQueen, of Syon Park Gardens, never got the chance to speak to Vincent McQueen while he was alive about his time in the Heydekrug and Fallingbostel POW camps. Like many veterans, she says, the former flight engineer found it hard to open up about his harrowing experiences during the Second World War. But a series of postcards written while he was interned, and a short account of bailing out over German territory he penned for Questors Theatre, in Ealing, where he was an amateur actor, helped her piece together a picture of life behind the barbed wire.
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