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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Barbed Wire Disease Barbed Wire Disease John Yarnall From the Preface... This study concentrates on British and German prisoners taken on the Western Front, where alleged neglect and ill-treatment became the subject of major propaganda campaigns in … OL17362197W
My escape from Donington hall My escape from Donington hall Gunther Plüschow It was an escape from a PoW camp as daring and fraught with danger as any immortalised by Hollywood. Yet the story is less familiar than most - as it concerns the only German prisoner of war to escap… OL18035117W
Die Wiener Forschungen an Kriegsgefangenen 1915-1918 Die Wiener Forschungen an Kriegsgefangenen 1915-1918 Britta Lange "Die von 1915 bis 1918 durchgeführten Untersuchungen an Kriegsgefangenen der Habsburger Monarchie standen in der Tradition von früheren Forschungen durch österreichische Wissenschaftler im Vielvölker… OL22340478W
A foreign field A foreign field Ben Macintyre In the first terrifying days of World War I, four British soldiers found themselves trapped behind enemy lines on the western front. They were forced to hide in the tiny French village of Villeret, w… OL2618444W
Lost Anzacs Lost Anzacs Greg Kerr This is a fascinating account of two very different Anzac experiences of World War I. Drawing on letters, diaries, and photographs from his grandfather and great-uncle, Greg Kerr relates the bitter e… OL2871269W
You'll die In Singapore You'll die In Singapore Charles McCormac With sixteen other POWs, author Charles McCormac broke out from his POW camp in Japanese-occupied Singapore and began a two-thousand-mile escape from Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Au… OL5879814W