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Prisoners of Britain : German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War /

During the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civil...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Panayi, Panikos (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2012.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Forgetting, remembering and the beginnings of a history
  • Arrest, transportation and capture
  • The camp system
  • Barbed wire disease and the grim realities of internment
  • Prison camp societies
  • Employment
  • Public opinion
  • Escape, release and return
  • The meaning of internment in Britain during the First World War.