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Pursuit of an '"unparalleled opportunity" : the American YMCA and prisoner-of-war diplomacy among the Central Power nations during World War I, 1914-1923 / Kenneth Steuer. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steuer, Kenneth.
- Series:
- Gutenberg (e)
- Gutenberg<e> series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World Alliance of YMCAs. War Prisoners' Aid.
- World Alliance of YMCAs.
- World War, 1914-1918--War work--Young Men's Christian associations.
- Harte, Archibald Clinton, 1865-1946.
- Harte, Archibald Clinton.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 440 p. )
- Other Title:
- "Unparalleled opportunity"
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
- Contents:
- "Evangelizing the world in a generation"
- "An unparalleled opportunity for service"
- The U.S. government and prisoner-of-war responsibilities
- "For the millions of men now under arms"
- Association POW diplomacy extends to Eastern and Southern Europe
- "In prison, ye visited me"
- Coordinating war prisoner relief
- Instituting the association's four-fold program in prison camps
- The American YMCA and WPA operations in Austria-Hungary
- Successful world's alliance POW diplomacy
- Expanding WPA relief work
- The United States enters the war
- Filling the breach
- The American YMCA and U.S. prisoners-of-war in Germany
- The American YMCA and allied prisoner relief in the Ottoman Empire
- The armistice and restoration of American YMCA WPA service in Central Europe
- Post-war WPA operations
- Countering the Bolshevik threat.
- Notes:
- "www.gutenberg-e.org."
- Partial representation of a multimedia work of the same title published in the Gutenberg-e online history series by Columbia University Press.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-231-50212-5
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