Barbed Wire Disease
Subtitle: British and German Prisoners of War, 1914-18
Publisher: History Press Limited, The
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780752456904
Subjects: World war, 1914-1918, prisoners and prisons; World war, 1914-1918, great britain; World war, 1914-1918, germany; Prisoners of war
Description: By the time of the Armistice in 1918, some 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated hardship and cruelty.