| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Legacy of the Great War |
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Legacy of the Great War.
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| Contents |
List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Becoming Prisoners of War; 2 The Hague Convention and the Treatment of POWs Mission and Omissions; 3 The Treatment of POWs in Russia; 4 In Search of the 'Good and Loyal Prisoner'; 5 The Emperor's Clothes The Austro Hungarian POW Relief Effort; 6 Imperial Identities and Personal Concerns The Perspective of the Prisoners; Index |
| Summary |
Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001, London. Winner of Talmon Prize, Israel, awarded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in World War I, captivity has recei ved only a marginal place in the collective memory of the Great War and has seemed unimportant compared with the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. Yet this book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a different picture of the Wa r and the human misery it produced |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Heer -- History -- 20th century.
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Prisoners of war -- Austria -- History -- 20th century.
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Prisoners of war -- Hungary -- History -- 20th century.
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World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, Russian.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1845206320 (electronic bk.) |
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1859735738 (Cloth) |
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1859735789 (Paper) |
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9781845206321 (electronic bk.) |
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9781859735732 |
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9781859735787 (Paper) |
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