Prisoners of Britain (eBook)

German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War

Panikos Panayi (Autor)

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2018
360 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-3055-6 (ISBN)

Infos

During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, and covers 3 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.

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During the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. Using a vast range of contemporary British and German sources the volume traces life experiences through initial arrest and capture to life behind barbed wire to return to Germany or to the remnants of the ethnically cleansed German community in Britain. The book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the history of prisoners of war or the First World War and will also appeal to scholars and students of twentieth-century Europe and the human consequences of war.

Autor

Panikos Panayi is Professor of European History at De Montfort University

Inhalt

1. Forgetting, remembering and the beginnings of a history
2. Arrest, transportation and capture
3. The camp system
4. Barbed wire disease and the grim realities of internment
5. Prison camp societies
6. Employment
7. Public opinion
8. Escape, release and return
9. The meaning of internment in Britain during the First World War
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2018
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations, black & white|Tables, black & white
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Britain • Civilians • Combatants • First World War • Imprisonment • incarcerations • Prisoners • soldiers • wartime experience • Western Front
• ISBN-10: 1-5261-3055-6 / 1526130556
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5261-3055-6 / 9781526130556