Prisoners of Britain: German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War

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: civil...

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Main Author: Panayi, Panikos 1962- (Author)
Format: Thesis Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Manchester University Press 2012
Edition:First published
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary: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
Item Description:Aus dem Vorwort: "The origins of this book lie in my Ph.D. thesis, which I completed over twenty years ago and which appeared in 1991 as 'The Enemy in Our Midst: Germans in Britain during the First World War'."
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 342 Seiten) Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:9781526130556
DOI:10.7765/9781526130556

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