The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War 1914-18 by John Lewis-Stempel

The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War 1914-18

John Lewis-Stempel

368 pages • first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional informative sad slow-paced
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On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another.In the camps the war was...

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