Panikos Panayi

Prisoners of Britain

German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 362
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 456g
• ISBN-13: 9780719095634
• ISBN-10: 0719095638
• Artikelnr.: 40718786

Autorenporträt

Panikos Panayi is Professor of European History at De Montfort University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Forgetting, remembering and the beginnings of a history 2. Arrest,
transportation and capture 3. The camp system 4. Barbed wire disease and
the grim realities of internment 5. Prison camp societies 6. Employment 7.
Public opinion 8. Escape, release and return 9. The meaning of internment
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