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Autore |
Panayi Panikos |
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Titolo |
Prisoners of Britain : German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War / / Panikos Panayi |
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New York : , : Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2018 |
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©2012 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (361 pages) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prisoners of war - Germany - History - 20th century |
Prisoners of war - Great Britain - History - 20th century |
World War, 1914-1918 - Prisoners and prisons, German |
World War, 1914-1918 - Prisoners and prisons, British |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-330) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Forgetting, remembering and the beginnings of a history -- Arrest, transportation and capture -- The camp system -- Barbed wire disease and the grim realities of internment -- Prison camp societies -- Employment -- Public opinion -- Escape, release and return -- The meaning of internment in Britain during the First World War. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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During the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. Using a vast range of contemporary British and German sources the volume traces life experiences through initial arrest and capture to life behind barbed wire to return to Germany or to the remnants of the ethnically cleansed German community in Britain. The book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the history of |
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