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The War Behind the Wire

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

The War Behind the Wire

By John Lewis-Stempel

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About the book

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 lite...Show more

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ISBN

9781780224909

Publisher

Orion Publishing Co

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

The War Behind the Wire

Format

Paperback

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