Objects of concern : Canadian prisoners of war through the twentieth century / / Jonathan F. Vance

• Autore: Vance Jonathan Franklin William <1963->
• Pubblicazione: Vancouver, : UBC Press, 1994
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 341.6/5/0971
• Soggetto topico: Prisoners of war - Canada - History - 20th century; War (International law) - History - 20th century; Concentration camps - History - 20th century
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Nineteenth-Century Precursors -- 'Everybody's Business' -- Repatriation and Llberation -- The Interwar Years -- The Organizational Framework, 1939-45 -- Relief And Release In The European Theatre -- A Tougher Nut: Prisoners of the Japanese -- 'The Debris of Past Wars' -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Hockey Magnate Conn Smythe, Trudeau cabinet minister Gilles Lamontagne, and the composer and former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Sir Ernest MacMillan, share something other than their fame: they all have the dubious distinction of having been captured by the enemy during Canada's wars of the twentieth century. Like some 15,000 other Canadians, Smythe, Lamontagne, and MacMillan experienced the bewilderment that accompanied the moment of capture, the humiliation of being completely in the captor's power, and the sense of stagnating in a backwater while the rest of the world moved forward."
• Titolo autorizzato: Objects of concern
• ISBN: 1-283-22585-9; 9786613225856; 0-7748-5488-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808666603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Alcuin Society award for excellence in Canadian book design ; ; 1994.