Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War : Britain, France, and Germany, 1914-1920

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Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War : Britain, France, and Germany, 1914-1920

Title remainder

Britain, France, and Germany, 1914-1920

Statement of responsibility

Heather Jones

Creator

• Jones, Heather, 1978-

Subject

• Prisoners of war -- Violence against -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
• Prisoners of war -- Violence against -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
• Repatriation -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Conscript labor
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, British
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, French
• World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
• Prisoners of war -- Violence against -- France -- History -- 20th century

Language

eng

Summary

In this groundbreaking study, Heather Jones provides the first in-depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalised captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of war and led to new forms of forced prisoner labour and reprisals, which fuelled wartime propaganda that was often based on accurate prisoner testimony. This book reveals how, during the conflict, increasing numbers of captives were not sent to home front camps but retained in western front working units to labour directly for the British, French and German armies - in the German case, by 1918, prisoners working for the German army endured widespread malnutrition and constant beatings. Dr Jones examines the significance of these new, violent trends and their later legacy, arguing that the Great War marked a key turning-point in the twentieth-century evolution of the prison camp.--

Member of

• Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare, 34

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

34