Author: Ernest Warburton
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Behind Boche Bars
Author: Ernest Warburton
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Behind Boche Bars ... With Four Illustrations
Author: Ernest Warburton
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Behind Boche Bars. [The Author's Experiences as a Prisoner of War in Germany During the Great War.] With ... Illustrations
Author: Ernest Warburton
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Languages : en
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Behind Boche Bars...
Author: Ernest Warburton (musicologue)
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 126
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Behind Boche Bars and Brother Bosch: an Airman's Escape from Germany
Author: Gerald Featherstone Knight
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ISBN: 9780578052694
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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ISBN: 9780578052694
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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The War Behind the Wire
Author: John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297869256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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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.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297869256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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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.
The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 950
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The Reference Catalogue of Current Literature
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2078
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2078
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The Graphic
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 966
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Field Ambulance Sketches
Author: A corporal
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Category : Ambulances
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Category : Ambulances
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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