Preliminaries; Contents; Contributors; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Overview; 2 The Repatriation of Prisoners of War once Hostilities are Over; 3 British Perceptions of Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-7; 4 Hatred within Limits; 5 Japanese Deserters and Prisoners of War in the Battle of Okinawa; 6 Re-educating the German Prisoners of War; 7 Anti-fascist Propaganda among Italian Prisoners of War in the USSR, 1941-6; 8 The Nucleus of a New German Ideology?; 9 Belated Homecomings; 10 The Internment of Returning Soviet Prisoners of War after 1945; 11 Coping in Britain and France
Summary
Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different
