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Join one of the Club’s longest running groups! Now in its seventh year the Book Club has enjoyed a wide variety of books recommended by the Committee and participating Members. The meeting is held on the 4th Tuesday of each month. We enjoy a discussion of the latest read over coffee and then lunch in Careening Cove Anchorage if you so wish. New readers are always welcome.





From the bestselling historian Ben Macintyre - remember The Spy and the Traitor - comes the incredible true story of WWII’s most infamous nazi prison, COLDITZ: Prisoners of the Castle

Deeply researched and full of extraordinary human stories, this is the definitive book on Colditz.

In a forbidding Gothic castle on a hilltop in the heart of Nazi Germany, an unlikely band of British officers spent the Second World War plotting daring escapes from their German captors. Or so the story of Colditz has gone, unchallenged for 70 years. But that tale contains only part of the truth.

The astonishing inside story is not only a tale of the indomitable human spirit, but also one of class conflict, racism, espionage, sexuality, insanity and farce. Through an astonishing range of material, Macintyre reveals a remarkable cast of characters, wider than previously seen and hitherto hidden from history, taking in prisoners and captors who were living cheek-by-jowl in a thrilling game of cat and mouse.

From the elitist members of the Colditz Bullingdon Club to America's oldest paratrooper and least successful secret agent, the soldier-prisoners of Colditz were courageous and resilient as well as vulnerable and fearful -- and astonishingly imaginative in their desperate escape attempts.

Date: Tuesday 28 November
Time: 11am
Venue: Carabella Room
Cost: $10 includes coffee and tea

Book online here or phone reception on 9966 7171.