Behind The Wire: Everyday Life As A Pow
by Tom Guttridge /
2017 / English / Kindle
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When Tom Guttridge returned from war in the early summer of 1945,
he brought home not only vivid memories of the battlefield and his
five years in prisoner-of-war camps but a unique collection of
photographs obtained from his German captors by trading items from
Red Cross parcels. These included battlefield scenes of Calais,
where Tom was captured in May 1940 after fighting to hold up the
German advance during the evacuation of Dunkirk, and pictures
illustrating both the horrors and the lighter side of daily life in
the two prisoner-of-war camps where he spent most of the war –
Stalag 8B in southern Poland and Stalag 383 in Bavaria, Germany.
Together with his written memories, the pictures provide a rare
visual insight into life in PoW camps, including daily chores,
funerals and celebrations, camp entertainment and football matches
between former professional players.
