POWs and the Great War : Captivity on the Eastern Front.
Başlık:
POWs and the Great War : Captivity on the Eastern Front.
Yazar:
Rachamimov, Alon.
ISBN:
9781845206321
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Basım Bilgisi:
1st ed.
Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Seri:
The Legacy of the Great War
İçerik:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures, Tables and Charts -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Clio's Veil -- Historiographic Contexts -- 1 Becoming Prisoners of War -- The Creation of the Austro-Hungarian POW Problem -- Austro-Hungarian POWs in Russia: A Quantitative Overview -- Becoming POWs: The View from Below -- 2 The Hague Convention and the Treatment of POWs: Mission and Omissions -- Prisoner of War Camps in World War I and the 'Barbaric' Twentieth Century -- The Legal Framework -- The 'Prototype' Thesis -- 3 The Treatment of POWs in Russia -- Prisoner of War Camps and other Places of Internment -- Living Conditions in POW Camps -- Prisoners of War as Labor -- Propaganda and Recruitment Among the Prisoners -- The Treatment of POWs and the Perception of World War I -- 4 In Search of the 'Good and Loyal Prisoner': The Austro-Hungarian Censorship and the POWs -- Patriotism in a Multi-National State -- The Austro-Hungarian POW Censorship -- Austro-Hungarian POWs, the Censorship and the Issue of Loyalty -- 5 The Emperor's Clothes: The Austro-Hungarian POW Relief Effort -- POW Relief in World War I: The Uniqueness of the Eastern Front -- The Austro-Hungarian POW Material Relief -- The Austro-Hungarian Nurses -- 6 Imperial Identities and Personal Concerns: The Perspective of the Prisoners -- Repatriation and the Repatriation System (Heimkehrwesen) -- Prisoner of War Letters and their Usefulness as a Historical Source -- The Relief Effort: The Prisoners' Perspective -- Epilogue: Captivity in the Collective Remembrance of the Great War - The Emergence of a Commemorative Pecking Order -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Özet:
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.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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