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Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War : Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920.
First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.