Midge Gillies: 3 books
The Barbed-Wire University
The Real Lives of Prisoners of War in the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
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...
Army Wives
From Crimea to Afghanistan: the Real Lives of the Women Behind the Men in Uniform
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Most families have an army wife somewhere in their past. Over the centuries they have followed their men to the front, helped them keep order in far-flung parts of the empire or waited anxiously at home. Army Wives uses first hand accounts, letters and diaries to tell their story. We meet the wives...
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion
Writing About Everything From Travel to Food to Sex
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Literary Non-Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companionis an essential guide to writing in a wide range of genres, from travel writing to feminist polemic and writing on nature, history, death, friendship and sexuality.
Part 1 explores the full range of genres and asks the question: what...