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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784007803321

Titolo

Prisoners of war, prisoners of peace [[electronic resource] ] : captivity, homecoming, and memory in World War II / / edited by Bob Moore & Barbara Hately-Broad

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Berg, c2005

ISBN

1-282-59651-9

9786612596513

1-84520-724-6

Edizione

[English ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MooreBob <1954->

Hately-BroadBarbara

Disciplina

940.54/72/0922

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons

World War, 1939-1945 - Social aspects

Ex-prisoners of war - Social conditions - 20th century

Ex-prisoners of war - Rehabilitation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Revisions of papers presented at a conference organized by the International Committee for the History of the Second World War in Hamburg in July, 2002.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-247) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Contributors; Glossary; Acknowledgments; Foreword; 1 Overview; 2 The Repatriation of Prisoners of War once Hostilities are Over; 3 British Perceptions of Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-7; 4 Hatred within Limits; 5 Japanese Deserters and Prisoners of War in the Battle of Okinawa; 6 Re-educating the German Prisoners of War; 7 Anti-fascist Propaganda among Italian Prisoners of War in the USSR, 1941-6; 8 The Nucleus of a New German Ideology?; 9 Belated Homecomings; 10 The Internment of Returning Soviet Prisoners of War after 1945; 11 Coping in Britain and France

12 After the Burma-Thailand Railway13 Languages of Memory; 14 Christina Twomey; 15 Prisoners of War in Australian National Memory; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has



been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different.