Prisoners of war : Europe, 1939-1956 /
"This is the first book that brings together the experiences of prisoners of war of all the major belligerent powers in the Second World War. It contrasts the relatively benign German treatment of captured British, French, and American servicemen with that inflicted on Soviet soldiers which led...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Polish campaign and the Winter War, 1939-1940: portents for the future
- Defeat and internment: the French army in German hands
- Scandinavia and the Low Countries
- Conventional captivity: Western Allied forces in Axis hands
- The Western Allies and their German prisoners, 1939-1945
- Enforced diaspora: the fate of Italian prisoners of war
- War of annihilation: Russian prisoners of war on the Eastern front, 1941-1942
- Soviet prisoners in German captivity, 1942-1945
- Conflict in the Balkans: conventional war-partisan war-civil war
- Jewish prisoners of war
- Black, North African, and Indian prisoners of war in Axis hands
- Women as prisoners of war
- Liberation, repatriation, reintegration, retribution: the return home of Allied soldiers
- Continuing captivity: Axis soldiers in the West, 1945-1948
- Continuing captivity: Axis soldiers in Soviet hands