It takes the average reader 4 hours and 57 minutes to read The War Behind the Wire by John Lewis-Stempel
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy. On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in....
The War Behind the Wire by John Lewis-Stempel is 288 pages long, and a total of 74,304 words.
This makes it 97% the length of the average book. It also has 91% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 46 minutes to read The War Behind the Wire aloud.
The War Behind the Wire is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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