John Lewis-Stempel: The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 [2014] hardback ZCHAR via Walter Benjamin

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John Lewis-Stempel: The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18 [2014] hardback ZCHAR via Walter BenjaminThe 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