Beyond Surrender

Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century
Herausgeber: Beaumont, Joan; Pegram, Aaron; Grant, Lachlan

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Melbourne University
• Main edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 138mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9780522868784
• ISBN-10: 0522868789
• Artikelnr.: 54725197

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.