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Prisoners of Britain : German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War / Panikos Panayi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Panayi, Panikos, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, British.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- Prisoners of war--Germany--History--20th century.
- Prisoners of war.
- Prisoners of war--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 342 pages) : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white), digital, PDF file(s)
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is a book on these German prisoners, covering three different types of internees in Britain: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5261-3055-6
- OCLC:
- 1030028826
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