Inside the Wire

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Ian Hollingsbee is an established academic author, a retired Senior Lecturer from UWE, a retired psychiatric nurse, and was also a Magistrate. He has written on care for the elderly as well as the history of asylums in Gloucestershire. He regularly gives talks on World War I and World War II history, as well as the history of asylums and watermills of the River Twyver.

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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.