POWs and the Great War : captivity on the Eastern Front /
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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Berg,
2002.
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Colección: | Legacy of the Great War.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 259 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781845206321 1845206320 1859735738 1859735789 9781859735787 9781859735732 |