The Barbed Wire University

by Midge Gillies

Feature films have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But the reality was much more extraordinary. POWs staged shows, concerts and sporting fixtures, and took up crafts and pastimes using materials they found around them. Men studied, attended lectures, learned languages, sat for qualifications and exams, on such a scale that one camp was nicknamed 'The Barbed-Wire University'. And often the years in captivity proved a...

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787717771
• ISBN13: 9781787717770
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oakhill Publishing (CD)