Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official government reports alongside private diaries, letters and personal testimonies, British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany restores the forgotten history of these men and their experiences of captivity to the historiography of the First World War.
Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official government reports alongside private diaries, letters and personal testimonies, British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany restores the forgotten history of these men and their experiences of captivity to the historiography of the First World War.
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Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Oliver Wilkinson is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History, Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, having researched British captivity experiences in the First World War for a decade. His previous works include contributions to the edited collections War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century: Global Conflicts (2014) and Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity behind Barbed Wire (2012), and to the Journal of War and Culture Studies.
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Introduction Part I. Behind the Wire: 1. Capture 2. The camps 3. Routine, work and discipline 4. Necessities of life Part II. Prisoner Responses: 5. Resistance 6. Leadership and organisation 7. Friends and feuds 8. Linking with home Conclusion: 9. Repatriation, futures and myths.
Introduction Part I. Behind the Wire: 1. Capture 2. The camps 3. Routine, work and discipline 4. Necessities of life Part II. Prisoner Responses: 5. Resistance 6. Leadership and organisation 7. Friends and feuds 8. Linking with home Conclusion: 9. Repatriation, futures and myths.
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