Description |
1 online resource (470 pages) |
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Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare ; v. 34 |
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Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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Contents |
Cover; Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Propaganda representations of violence against prisoners; Introduction to part I; 1 Encountering the 'enemy': civilian violence towards prisoners of war in 1914; Introduction: pre-war civilian expectations of wartime captivity; Civilian violence against prisoners: establishing the 'enemy'; Case study 1: the arrival of German prisoners of war in France, August-October 1914 |
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Case study 2: the arrival of British and French prisoners of war in Germany, August-October, 1914The media coverage of 1914 civilian violence against prisoners -- the cycle of representations; Conclusion; 2 Legitimate and illegitimate violence against prisoners: representations of atrocity, 1914-16; Introduction; Case study 1: battlefield violence against prisoners at the moment of surrender, 1914-15; Case study 2: violent representations and the German prison camp in 1915; Case study 3: the depiction of illness among prisoners of war; Typhus in German camps in 1915 |
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Sickness among German prisoners in French camps in North AfricaConclusion; Part II: Violence and prisoner of war forced labour; Introduction to part II; 3 The development of prisoner of war labour companies on the western front: the spring reprisals of 1917; Introduction: cycles of violence; The foundation of prisoner of war labour companies in the German army; Violence against prisoners of war before the 1917 spring reprisals: the French army; The German spring reprisals, 1917; Conclusion; 4 From discipline to retribution: violence in German prisoner of war labour companies in 1918 |
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IntroductionPrisoner living conditions in the occupied territories before the German spring offensive; Prisoner living conditions in the occupied territories during the German spring offensive; Conclusion; 5 Inevitable escalation? British and French treatment of forced prisoner labour, 1917-18; Introduction; The 1918 experience of German prisoners of war held by Britain; The 1918 experience of German prisoners of war held by France; Conclusion; Part III: The end of violence? Repatriation and remembrance; Introduction to part III |
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6 Contested homecomings: prisoner repatriation and the formation of memory, 1918-21Introduction; Post-war memory narratives: the British and French experience of prisoner repatriation; Post-war memory narratives: the German experience of prisoner repatriation; Conclusion; 7 La Grande Illusion: the interwar historicisation of violence against prisoners of war, 1922-39; Introduction; The need to forget? British society and the memory of prisoner mistreatment; Poilus or prisonniers? The memory of violence against prisoners of war in interwar France |
Summary |
First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War |
Notes |
Writing the history of prisoners of war in interwar Germany |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-439) and index |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Prisoners of war -- Violence against -- France -- History -- 20th century
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Prisoners of war -- Violence against -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
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Prisoners of war -- Violence against -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
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Repatriation -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscript labor
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, British
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, French
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Repatriation
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Europe
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France
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Germany
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Great Britain
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781139864862 |
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1139864866 |
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9781139870580 |
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1139870580 |
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1139862723 |
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9781139862721 |
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9780511921186 |
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0511921187 |
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