Neville Wylie

Barbed Wire Diplomacy

Britain, Germany, and the Politics of Prisoners of War, 1939-1945

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Produktbeschreibung

Neville Wylie examines Britain's diplomatic efforts to safeguard its prisoners of war in Germany between 1939 and 1945.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 673g
• ISBN-13: 9780199547593
• ISBN-10: 0199547599
• Artikelnr.: 29731811

Autorenporträt

Dr S I Strong has over fifteen years' experience in the legal field, teaching law at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and practising as a solicitor in London and as an attorney in New York and Chicago. Dr Strong has additional experience as an editor and as a teacher of writing, and holds numerous awards for her writing and legal analysis, including the Yorke Prize for outstanding doctoral dissertation from the University of Cambridge. Dr Strong is currently an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Missouri, Columbia, as well as Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Dispute Resolution.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction: Barbed Wire Diplomacy: Britain, Germany and the
politics of prisoners of war during the Second World War
* 1: Explaining coordination and cooperation in Anglo-German relations,
1939-1945
* 2: Building the interwar POW regime
* 3: POWs and Anglo-German relations, 1939-1941
* 4: The amateurs try their hand. The provision of relief parcels,
1940-41
* 5: The POW regime, October 1941 - December, 1942: from 'cooperation'
to 'coordination'
* 6: The shadow of the shackling crisis, 1943
* 7: The role of the Dominions in British POW policy
* 8: The limits of attraction: British policy and the 'Great Escape',
1944
* 9: Avoiding Gotterdämmerung, 1945
* Conclusion