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Auteur(s) : Gillies, Midge (1962-....)
Titre(s) : The barbed-wire university [Texte imprimé] : the real lives of Allied prisoners of war in the Second World War / Midge Gillies
Publication : London : Aurum, 2011
Description matérielle : xix, 486 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm
Comprend : Europe. Becoming a POW ; Settling In and Getting by ; Uses for a Red Cross Parcel
Number 1, String ; Friendships and Feuds ; Sport ; Uses for a Red Cross Parcel Number
2, Cigarettes ; 'Stalag Happy': Imaginary Worlds and Other Ways of Escape ; Uses for
a Red Cross Parcel Number, 3, Tins ; POW Artists ; The War in the East. Surrender
; Changi ; Turned Out Rice Again: Food and Cooking ; Make Do and Mend ; Entertainment
: 'You'll Never Get Off this Island!' ; Sport ; Recording Captivity Through Art and
Photography ; POW Doctor ; Taking Flight: Escape Through Birdwatching ; Survival Teams
; Escape Through Study ; University of Kuching ; Languages and Communicating with
the Outside World ; Hidden Wireless Sets ; Religion ; The Magic of Letters from Home
; The Changi Murals ; Europe. Reading for Profit ; Gardening and Birdwatching ;
Study ; Music and Theatre ; The Far East.; 'Upcountry' : The Thailand-Burma Railway
; Art and Medicine on the Railway ; Archaeologist on the 'Death Railway' ; Entertainment
and Ingenuity in Thailand ; 'Home' Again : Changi Gaol ; The POW Diaspora ; Freedom.
Somewhere Near the End ; Victory in the Far East ; Homecoming ; Ex-POWS. Aftermath.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (p. [467]-474) and index
This extraordinary social history will redefine our picture of the POW camps and leave
us with renewed admiration for the initiative, creativity and fortitude of men in
wartime captivity, men whose whole lives and post-war careers were transformed by
their time as POWs
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Real lives of Allied prisoners of war in the Second World
War
- Titre de dos : Barbed-wire university : the real lives of prisoners of war in the
Second World War
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Prisonniers et prisons des Britanniques
Prisonniers de guerre -- Grande-Bretagne -- 1900-1945
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781845136291 (hbk.). - ISBN 1845136292 (hbk.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42557188v
Notice n° :
FRBNF42557188
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