| Description |
ix, 312 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Prisoners of war in the Second World War: an overview / Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich -- Axis prisoners in Britain during the Second World War: a comparative survey / Bob Moore -- 'Blind bureaucracy': the British government and POWs in German captivity, 1939-45 / David Rolf -- The trouble with allies: Canada and the negotiation of prisoner of war exchanges / Jonathan F. Vance -- Captives of their countrymen: Free French and Vichy French POWs in Africa and the Middle East, 1940-3 / Martin Thomas -- Propaganda and political warfare: the Foreign Office, Italian POWs and the Free Italy Movement, 1940-3 / Kent Fedorowich -- Human vivisection: the intoxication of limitless power in wartime / Charles G. Roland -- Africans and African Americans in enemy hands / David Killingray -- Italian prisoners of war in Great Britain, 1943-6 / Lucio Sponza -- Captors and captives on the Burma-Thailand Railway / Sibylla Jane Flower -- From consideration to contempt: the changing nature of Japanese military and popular perceptions of prisoners of war through the ages / Ikuhiko Hata -- Protecting prisoners of war, 1939-95 / Joan Beaumont |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Prisoners of war -- History -- 20th century.
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Prisoners of war.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons.
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| Author |
Fedorowich, Kent, 1959-
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Moore, Bob, 1954-
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| LC no. |
97198793 |
| ISBN |
185973152X (paperback) |
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1859731570 (cloth) |
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