Inside the Wire - The Prisoner-of-War Camps and Hostels of Gloucestershire 1939–1948

Stalag VIII-B, Colditz, these names are synonymous with POWs in the Second World War. Gloucestershire was home to a wealth of prisoner-of-war camps and hostels, and many Italian and German prisoners spent the war years here. It also features the compelling first-hand account of Joachim Schulze, a German POW who spent the war near Tewkesbury.