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Surviving the Great War - Australian Prisoners of War on the Western Front 1916-18 (Hardcover)
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Surviving the Great War - Australian Prisoners of War on the Western Front 1916-18 (Hardcover)
Series: Australian Army History Series
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Between 1916 and 1918, more than 3,800 men of the Australian
Imperial Force were taken prisoner by German forces fighting on the
Western Front. Australians captured in France and Belgium did not
easily integrate into public narratives of Australia in the First
World War and its commemorative rituals. Captivity was a story of
surrender and inaction, at odds with the Anzac legend and a
triumphant national memory. Soldiers captured on the Western Front
endured a broad range of experiences in German captivity, yet all
regarded survival as a personal triumph. Surviving the Great War is
the first detailed analysis of the little-known story of
Australians in German captivity in the First World War. By placing
the hardships of prisoners of war in a broader social and military
context, this book adds a new dimension to the national wartime
experience and challenges popular representations of Australia's
involvement in the First World War.
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