Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001,
London. Winner of Talmon Prize, Israel, awarded by the Israeli
Academy of Sciences.
Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in
World War I, captivity has received only a marginal place in the
collective memory of the Great War and has seemed unimportant
compared with the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. Yet
this book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a
different picture of the War and the human misery it produced.
During four years of fighting, approximately 8.5 million soldiers
were taken captive, of whom nearly 2.8 million were
Austro-Hungarians. This book is the first to consider in-depth the
experiences of these prisoners during their period of
incarceration.
How were POWs treated in Russia? What was the relationship between
prisoners and their home state? How were concepts of patriotism and
loyalty employed and understood? Drawing extensively on original
letters and diaries, Rachamimov answers these and other searching
questions. In the process, major omissions in previous
historiography are addressed. Anyone wishing to have a rounded
history of the Great War will find this book fills a major
gap.
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