The Cigarette Diaries: A personal history of life in a WWII prison camp

After his B-24 was shot down over Poland in September, 1944, U.S. Army Air Corps bombardier 2nd Lieutenant Frank Pratt spent the next eight months as a POW at Stalag Luft I, outside of Barth, Germany. He recorded his experiences in diaries made from cigarette packets. His writings tell the story of day-to-day life as a prisoner in the camp in the closing months of World War II.