Название: The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War
Автор: Midge Gillies
Издательство: Aurum Press
ISBN: 1845136292
Год: 2012
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 400
Размер: 1,6 МБ
Язык: Английский

Feature films have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. He is the spruce, stiff-upper-lipped Alec Guinness in The Bridge on the River Kwai, or Steve McQueen's cunning and opportunist 'Cooler King' in The Great Escape, the all-American motorbike hero. If he is imprisoned in Europe it will have to be in the forbidding North German Schloss of Colditz or the tunnel-riddled Stalag Luft III.