Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943

by Bernard Harris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152678386X
• ISBN13: 9781526783868
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.3"