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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vance, Jonathan F. (Jonathan Franklin William), 1963-

Series:

Alcuin Society award for excellence in Canadian book design ; 1994.

Alcuin Society award for excellence in Canadian book design ; 1994

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Prisoners of war.

War (International law)--History--20th century.

War (International law).

Internment camps--History--20th century.

Internment camps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 324 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Vancouver : UBC Press, 1994.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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."

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613225856

9781283225854

1283225859

9780774854887

077485488X

OCLC:

180704182