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Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War - Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920 (Hardcover)
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Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War - Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920 (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
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In this groundbreaking new 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.
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