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Mercy Ships - The Untold Story of Prisoner-of-War Exchanges in World War II (Hardcover)
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Mercy Ships - The Untold Story of Prisoner-of-War Exchanges in World War II (Hardcover)
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This book offers a remarkable insight into the humanitarian
exchanges and communications between warring governments during the
Second World War.Remarkably, throughout the Second World War, even
when the violence was its height, the Allied and Axis governments
remained in contact through third parties in order to achieve
humanitarian ends such as the exchange of wounded prisoners-of-war,
of 'protected' persons, such as medical personnel and priests, and
of civilian internees. This involved detailed negotiations, careful
planning and coordination, and the movement of protected ships and
trains through war zones. Even after Pearl Harbour and the defeat
of Singapore there were exchanges between both America and the UK
with Japan.This book fills an important gap in Second World War and
humanitarian literature, describing how the warring governments not
only communicated with each other but also exchanged large numbers
of people and goods, thus showing that, despite the bloodshed and
killing, a spark of humanity still existed.
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