Barbed-Wire Blues : A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943
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[Place of publication not identified] : Pen & Sword Books, [2021].
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"Quite uplifting... This book looks less at the usual escape attempts but concentrates on lifting people of the camp through entertainment." -- UK Historian As the author, a young Army bandsman lies wounded at the Battle of Corinth, he is shot between the eyes at point blank range. Miraculously he survives but is blinded. In a makeshift hospital a young Greek volunteer saves his life with slices of boiled egg. Captured Allied medics later restore the sight in one eye. In this moving and entertaining memoir Bernard describes daily life in POW camps in Greece and Germany. He established a theatrical group and an orchestra that performed for fellow POWs and their German guards. A superb raconteur, as well as a gifted musician, the author's anecdotes are memorably amusing. Bernard was repatriated via Sweden in late 1943. While blinded in one eye and seriously wounded, the author was told by his New Zealand doctor, fellow POW and musician John Borrie, "When nothing else will do, music will always lift one up." Barbed-Wire Blues ' inspirational, ever optimistic tone will surely have the same effect on its readers. "While not a story of blood, guts and bullets it does do a very good job of telling the story of a man's recovery from a wound that should have killed him until his repatriation and the return of the use of his arm, and then the return of the sight to one eye. This book is worth taking the time to read, as it can be considered to be the story of one man's battle against adversity." -- Armorama"--,Provided by Freading.
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Harris, B. (2021). Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943 . Pen & Sword Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harris, Bernard. 2021. Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943. Pen & Sword Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Harris, Bernard. Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943 Pen & Sword Books, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Harris, Bernard. Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943 Pen & Sword Books, 2021.
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