Author Description

Everyday life is offset by high drama as POW tells of the secret organizations that smuggled aid into the camps, and of the prisoners’ daring escape plots, sabotage plans and other resistance activities. Combining a wealth of information from new sources with eleven individual stories, this book brings forgotten voices to the fore and bears witness to some of the most frequently-overlooked heroes of the Second World War. POW relates the experiences of Allied prisoners of war in Europe during the Second World War, vividly describing their daily lives, camp politics, sexual relations, artistic and intellectual work and sometimes ambiguous relationships with the enemy. Praise for POW: ‘A valuable record [written] with verve and scholarship’ - Daily Telegraph ‘Spellbinding and overdue’ - Western Daily Press ‘Comprehensive and worthwhile’ - Daily Mail Adrian Gilbert has written extensively on military history. His books include World War One in Photographs; Britain Invaded, an imagined account of a cross-channel German invasion in 1940; The Imperial War Museum Book of the Desert War, featuring first-hand accounts from British and Commonwealth forces in North Africa, 1940–42; and Sniper: One-on-One, a history of sharpshooting and sniping.