Life Behind Barbed Wire: The Secret World War II Photographs of Prisoner of War Angelo M. Spinelli - Couverture rigide

Spinelli, Angelo

 
9780823223053: Life Behind Barbed Wire: The Secret World War II Photographs of Prisoner of War Angelo M. Spinelli
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ISBN 10 : 0823223051 ISBN 13 : 9780823223053
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Sergeant Angelo Spinelli was captured in North Africa by the Germans on Valentine's Day, 1943, and shipped to Stalag IIIB near Furstenburg, Germany. Using cigarettes obtained from the Red Cross, Spinelli bribed a camp guard to procure a Voitlander camera and film. Life behind Barbed Wire features photographs Spinelli took during his time in prison camp.

Of the more than one thousand photographs Spinelli risked his life to take, more than one hundred appear in this book. The remarkable photographs, enhanced by Lewis H. Carlson's explanatory text, feature prisoners trading with the guards' combating ticks, lice, and other vermin, preparing meager rations on ingenious cooking contraptions, fighting off boredom by playing baseball, soccer, and football, putting on musical and dramatic theatre presentations, and worshiping in a chapel the prisoners themselves built.

These snapshots give us a window on camp life, where catastrophe was normal and normalcy was often catastrophic. In addition, there are dramatic shots of liberation from Stalag IIIA, where Spinelli and some thirty-eight thousand other Allied prisoners had been moved during the final months of the war. Mounted
as a traveling exhibit by the National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville, Georgia, 92 of these photographs are currently on display at the Italian American Museum in New York City.

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À propos de l'auteur

Angelo Spinelli was a decorated combat photographer in the Signal Corps. Born in the Bronx, New York, he now lives in Hallandale, Florida.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2004
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823223051
ISBN 13 
9780823223053
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  082322306X ISBN 13 :  9780823223060
Editeur : Fordham Univ Pr, 2004
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