03016oam 22005174a 450 991048012470332120190827040541.01-5261-3055-6(CKB)4100000004820376(MiAaPQ)EBC5394387(OCoLC)1030028826(MdBmJHUP)muse67444(EXLCZ)99410000000482037620130925d2012 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPrisoners of BritainGerman civilian and combatant internees during the First World War /Panikos PanayiNew York :Distributed in the United States exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,2012.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2018©2012.1 online resource (361 pages)0-7190-9563-8 0-7190-7834-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-330) and index.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.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 prisoners of war or the First World War and will also appeal to scholars and students of twentieth-century Europe and the human consequences of war.Prisoners of warGermanyHistory20th centuryPrisoners of warGreat BritainHistory20th centuryWorld War, 1914-1918Prisoners and prisons, GermanWorld War, 1914-1918Prisoners and prisons, BritishElectronic books. Prisoners of warHistoryPrisoners of warHistoryWorld War, 1914-1918Prisoners and prisons, German.World War, 1914-1918Prisoners and prisons, British.940.5Panayi Panikos305399MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480124703321Prisoners of Britain2441141UNINA