The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies

The Barbed-Wire University by Midge Gillies

Drawing on letters home, diaries and interviews with redoubtable survivors now into their nineties, Midge Gillies recreates the daily lives of a truly remarkable group of men. It is a story by turns thrilling, funny, desperate and moving, but never less than inspirational.

Many eye-opening facts in a bright new history of POWs…I’m finding it enthralling

Rich and insightful panorama of POW lifeEvery one of the pages hums with human interest and the whole enterprise is conducted with the highest standards of scholarship

What the reader is most likely to take away from this rich and well-researched book is a sense of the extraordinary ingenuity and resourcefulness so many POWs displayed

Brilliantly researched… Gillies has weaved her findings into a fascinating and deeply moving piece of social history

What the reader is most likely to take away from this rich and well-researched book is a sense of the extraordinary ingenuity and resourcefulness so many POWs displayed

What the reader is most likely to take away from this rich and well-researched book is a sense of the extraordinary ingenuity and resourcefulness so many POWs displayed.

Many eye-opening facts in a bright new history of POWs… I’ m finding it enthralling

Rich and insightful panorama of POW life. Every one of the pages hums with human interest and the whole enterprise is conducted with the highest standards of scholarship

These astonishing tales of improvisation, ingenuity and courage are so enthralling. Every facet of this epic story is covered with sensitivity, restraint, and a leavening humour… full of unforgettable stories… Such stories illuminate a great subject in engrossing detail.

Midge Gillies has tackled a colossal subject with calm professionalism and a lightness of touch which makes it a great joy to read. An outstanding piece of scholarship which is as readable as it is informative.

'Outstanding...absorbing

Midge Gillies’ s engaging The Barbed-Wire University… is a breezy, edifying history which knits together compelling tragi-comic tales.

Fascinating book by the daughter of a POW… written in an easy human style and very informative.

Midge Gillies has written six books including highly acclaimed biographies of the record-breaking pilot Amy Johnson, and Edwardian music hall star, Marie Lloyd. In Waiting for Hitler, Britain on the Brink of Invasion she recreated the tension and fear that permeated the summer of 1940. She studied at Cambridge University and has written for a wide range of publications including the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Independent and the Los Angeles Times. She is a part-time tutor for the University of Cambridge's Institute of Continuing Education. Her father was a prisoner of war in Europe and she is married to the prize-winning crime novelist, Jim Kelly. They live in Cambridgeshire with their daughter, Rosa.

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ISBN 13	9781845136291
ISBN 10	1845136292
Title	The Barbed-Wire University
Author	Midge Gillies
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2011-05-25
Number of pages	512
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