The barbed-wire university : the real lives of Allied prisoners of war in the Second World War /: the real lives of Allied prisoners of war in the Second World War. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Real lives of Allied prisoners of war in the Second World War
• Further Information: Note: Midge Gillies.
• Other Names: Gillies, Midge, 1962-
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Aurum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Subjects: 940.5472; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons; Prisoners of war; Prisoners of war -- Great Britain; Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs; Prisoners of war; Alliierte; Weltkrieg; Kriegsgefangener; Alltag; Great Britain
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845137274; 1845137272
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.