Thanks James: went to the book launch as the author is a pal. Colleagues
may be interested to know that my co-edited volume (with Harold Mytum)
'Creativity Behind Barbed Wire' (Routledge) will be out next March. We're
putting the finishing touches to it right now!
Best wishes,
Gilly Carr
On Jun 15 2011, James Symonds wrote:
>http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9511000/9511697.stm
>
>
>New research has revealed the extraordinary creativity of Allied PoWs
>imprisoned during World War II. What do the actors Clive Dunn and
>Denholm Elliott, the artist Sir Terry Frost and the cartoonist Ronald
>Searle, creator of that byword for schoolday rebellion St Trinian's,
>have in common?
>
>They were just four of the hundreds of thousands of men held in camps
>across the world during the war, an experience which produced a huge
>outpouring of creative activity which transformed their lives as well
>as those of countless others.
>
>The caricature of life for Allied PoWs often is often one of
>breathless derring-do: tunnelling, jumping or - witness Steve McQueen
>in The Great Escape - powering to freedom on a souped-up motorcycle.
>
>On the other hand, books and film have also portrayed PoWs as
>brutalised - which certainly was the case with many captured by the
>Japanese - or listless and bored, kicking their heels and waiting for
>liberation.
>
>Clive Dunn honed his acting skills in a POW camp in Austria In a new
>book, The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Prisoners of War
>in the Second World War, author Midge Gillies has revealed another,
>far richer, aspect of the story.
>
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