The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War by Midge Gillies

The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War

Midge Gillies

512 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective sad medium-paced
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The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is of escape attempts (Colditz and The Great Escape) or terrible brutality (the Far Eastern camps and The Bridge on the River Kwai). But what did the men really do a...

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