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The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of ... by Lewis-Stempel, John
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- 9781780224909
- EAN
- 9781780224909
- Book Title
- War Behind the Wire : the Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18
- Item Length
- 7.5in
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, The Limited
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Format
- Uk-B Format Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 2in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / General, Military / World War I
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy. 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 eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in 1918 burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than 12,000 PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified.
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Orion Publishing Group, The Limited
ISBN-10
1780224907
ISBN-13
9781780224909
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Product Key Features
Book Title
War Behind the Wire : the Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / General, Military / World War I
Publication Year
2015
Genre
History
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.5in
Item Height
2in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
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D627.G3
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[Lewis-Stempel] has performed a notable service by telling the story of 1914-18's prisoners, a sad but significant epic., [Lewis-Stempel] has performed a notable service by telling the story of the 1914-18's prisoners, a sad but significant epic.-- Max Hastings , SUNDAY TIMES, Stempel recreated life behind the wire for British servicemen, looking at how they kept their sanity, maintained their health, and sought to survive an often very grim existence. Readable and absorbing.-- GOOD BOOK GUIDE, (an) excellent study of British and colonial prisoners of war..... What makes The War Behind the Wire important, however is John Lewis-Stempel's destruction of two widely held beliefs. First, he reveals that some 90% of the 420 successful escapers were not elite officers. Second and even more importantly, Lewis-Stempel proves that the Germans were animated more by the Kriegsbrauch (which allowed for the killing of POWs), than by the humanitarian values of the Hague Convention...-- Nathan M. Greenfield , TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, A vivid study of the lost heroes of the First World War: the British PoWs who made valiant bids for freedom.-- THE SUNDAY TIMES, Lewis-Stempel's book is fantastically well-written, thoroughly researched and full of surprising facts.-- Christ Short , HISTORY OF WAR MAGAZINE, ...an entertaining read, and one characterised by the authenticity of the prisoners' own testimony.-- Fiona Reid , BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE, Lewis-Stempel describes our prisoners as the lost men of the Great War... In writing this moving, harrowing account he has done them a noble service.-- Richard Kemp , THE TIMES, The author's enthralling narrative describes the new horror of the First World War as well as any account from the frontliners.-- Louis Rive , MILITARY HISTORY MAGAZINE, During the First World War, the Germans held 171,299 British PoWs in often appalling conditions. Humour helped: "Hun-baiting" was popular. And 573 prisoners managed to escape- using methods including tunnelling and impersonation of German officers.-- THE INDEPENDENT
Copyright Date
2014
Dewey Decimal
940.47243
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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