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Prisoners of Britain : German Civilian and Combatant Internees During the First World War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781526130556
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prisoners of BritainDDC classification:
  • 940.5
LOC classification:
  • D627.G7 .P363 2012
Online resources:
Contents:
PRISONERS OF BRITAIN: German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War -- Hlaf Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 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.
Summary: 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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PRISONERS OF BRITAIN: German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War -- Hlaf Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- 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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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