The Spirit in the Cage is a book written by Peter Churchill, DSO, Croix de Guerre, published in 1954.
It describes his captivity in France and Germany, and that of Odette Sansom, from April 1943 until the end of the war, when they were eventually released.
The Spirit in the Cage describes the captivity of Peter Churchill and his courier, Odette Sansom, in France then in Germany.
Churchill was initially taken to the German barracks in Annecy, then to Fresnes, where he remained until 13 February 1944, when he was transferred to Berlin for questioning.
On 24 April 1945, Churchill was taken from Dachau over the Brenner Pass to Villabassa (Niederdorf in the Tyrol), together with many other prominent concentration camp inmates from different countries,[1] where the SS left the prisoners behind as American forces were approaching.