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ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
The Times History of the War
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison
Author: Robert Valentine DolbeyPublisher: London : J. Murray
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine
Author: Royal Society of Medicine (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 994
Book Description
Comprises the proceedings of the various sections of the society, each with separate t.-p. and pagination.
The War Behind the Wire
Author: John Lewis-StempelPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 0297869256
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
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.
United Empire
Author: Our Days on the Gold Coast
Author: Mrs. Henry De La PasturePublisher:
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Category : Ghana
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
A collection of entries for a competition on the subject 'A day of the writer's life on the coast' written by members of the Gold Coast community and originally published in aid of the Red Cross.
Our Days on the Gold Coast
Author: Lady CliffordThe Publisher
Author: The English Catalogue of Books [annual]
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Author: Sampson LowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Vols. for 1898-1968 include a directory of publishers.
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