Prisoners of war and their captors in World War II / [edited by] Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moore, Bob, 1954-

Fedorowich, Kent, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.

World War, 1939-1945.

Prisoners of war--History--20th century.

Prisoners of war.

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 312 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; Washington, D.C. : Berg, 1996.

Contents:

Prisoners of war in the Second World War: an overview / Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich

Axis prisoners in Britain during the Second World War: a comparative survey / Bob Moore

'Blind bureaucracy': the British government and POWs in German captivity, 1939-45 / David Rolf

The trouble with allies: Canada and the negotiation of prisoner of war exchanges / Jonathan F. Vance

Captives of their countrymen: Free French and Vichy French POWs in Africa and the Middle East, 1940-3 / Martin Thomas

Propaganda and political warfare: the Foreign Office, Italian POWs and the Free Italy Movement, 1940-3 / Kent Fedorowich

Human vivisection: the intoxication of limitless power in wartime / Charles G. Roland

Africans and African Americans in enemy hands / David Killingray

Italian prisoners of war in Great Britain, 1943-6 / Lucio Sponza

Captors and captives on the Burma-Thailand Railway / Sibylla Jane Flower

From consideration to contempt: the changing nature of Japanese military and popular perceptions of prisoners of war through the ages / Ikuhiko Hata

Protecting prisoners of war, 1939-95 / Joan Beaumont.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1859731570

185973152X

OCLC:

36237523