Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century
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Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian "behind-the-wire” experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality.

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Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian "behind-the-wire” experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality.
Autorenporträt
Joan Beaumont is the author of Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War , joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's Award for Australian History and the 2014 NSW Premier's Award for Australian History. She has also published on the Thai-Burma railway, and in 2011-13 researched the Hellfire Pass commemorative website for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Lachlan Grant is a historian in the Military History Section of the Australian War Memorial. He has published widely on the Australian experiences of World War II and the Australian prisoner-of-war experience. He recently authored Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II. Aaron Pegram is a historian in the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial. He is the Memorial's tour leader and historical guide for the Memorial's Western Front battlefield tours, and is completing a PhD thesis on Australian prisoners in Germany during World War I.