Diary and drawings compiled by Richard Henry Stevenson during his captivity in a German prisoner-of-war camp

In April 1944 when his ship was torpedoed, Canadian naval officer Richard Henry Stevenson fought for his life in the waters of the English Channel. Stevenson spent the rest of the war in Marlag "O," a German prisoner-of-war camp for Allied sailors near Bremen. He kept a diary, detailing the sinking of his ship and his subsequent lengthy and tedious captivity until his liberation by the Allies in spring 1945.