The Barbed-Wire University
The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War
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2025
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Revised edition
Safe Haven Books (Verlag)
978-1-0685162-2-1 (ISBN)
Safe Haven Books (Verlag)
978-1-0685162-2-1 (ISBN)
An acclaimed history of what Allied POWs during the last war really spent their time doing: educating themselves, whether that be taking degrees, learning to play in an orchestra, perfecting surgical techniques with rudimentary implements, or excelling at sport, art or drama. Now reissued with an extensive Afterword.
According to popular myth, Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War spent most of their time escaping. In fact, from Germany to the Far East, they were doing much more remarkable things.
Faced with the prospect of years of boredom, these servicemen took up the crafts and professions they'd
pursued before their captivity - or set about learning new ones. They formed orchestras
(asking the Red Cross to send kettle drums), sat accountancy exams (textbooks,
please), dressed up in drag and put on operas. They contested Ashes series, laid
out golf courses in the exercise yard. When they needed medical care, their own
surgeons perfected camp dentistry, fashioned prosthetic limbs. Actors like Clive Dunn and Donald Pleasance, cartoonists like Ronald Searle, artists like Terry Frost - all developed, or even first plied, their crafts while POWs.
Little wonder
that one camp in Germany became known as 'the Barbed-Wire University' . . .
Acclaimed on first
publication, this superb book is now reissued with an extensive Afterword.
According to popular myth, Allied prisoners of war during the Second World War spent most of their time escaping. In fact, from Germany to the Far East, they were doing much more remarkable things.
Faced with the prospect of years of boredom, these servicemen took up the crafts and professions they'd
pursued before their captivity - or set about learning new ones. They formed orchestras
(asking the Red Cross to send kettle drums), sat accountancy exams (textbooks,
please), dressed up in drag and put on operas. They contested Ashes series, laid
out golf courses in the exercise yard. When they needed medical care, their own
surgeons perfected camp dentistry, fashioned prosthetic limbs. Actors like Clive Dunn and Donald Pleasance, cartoonists like Ronald Searle, artists like Terry Frost - all developed, or even first plied, their crafts while POWs.
Little wonder
that one camp in Germany became known as 'the Barbed-Wire University' . . .
Acclaimed on first
publication, this superb book is now reissued with an extensive Afterword.
Midge Gillies is the author of Piccadilly, Amy Johnson, Waiting for Hitler, Army Wives and the forthcoming Atlantic Furies. She lives in Cambridge.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 17.06.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 30 b & w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 300 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0685162-2-4 / 1068516224 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0685162-2-1 / 9781068516221 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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