PRISONERS OF JAN SMUTS, Italian prisoners of war in South Africa in WWII

278pp., illus., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2024

Historian Karen Horn on the experiences of Italian POWs in the Union of South Africa, held mainly in Zonderwater Camp outside Cullinan or in work camps across the country. She focuses especially on five prisoners who documented their experiences in memoirs and letters.

Karen Horn teaches at Stellenbosch University. She is the author of In Enemy Hands: South Africa's POWs in WWII.