Prisoners of War - Bob Moore

Prisoners of War

Europe: 1939-1956

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Buch | Hardcover
560 Seiten
2022
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-884039-8 (ISBN)
47,35 inkl. MwSt
The Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. Prisoners of War uses a series of case studies to illuminate the personal and collective histories of those who experienced captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war and their repatriation and reintegration afterwards.
The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform - even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity. While it is impossible to encompass their collective histories, let alone the individual experiences of all twenty million prisoners in a single volume, Bob Moore uses a series of case studies to highlight the key elements involved and to introduce, analyse, and refine some of the major debates that have arisen in the existing historiography. The study is divided into three broad sections: captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war itself, comparative studies of specific categories of prisoners, and the repatriation and reintegration of prisoners after the war.

Bob Moore is Emeritus Professor of European History at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the history of Western Europe in the mid twentieth century, including Victims and Survivors: the Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 (1997); Resistance in Western Europe (2000); Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States (with Frank Caestecker, 2009) and his most recent monograph, Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He has recently completed the editing (with Johannes Houwink ten Cate) of De Geheime Dagboek van Arnold Douwes (2018) and its translation as The Secret Diary of Arnold Douwes (2019). His work on prisoners of war includes The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War 1940-1947 (with Kent Fedorowich, 2003) as well as several journal articles.

1: Introduction
2: The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939-1940: Portents for the Future
3: Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands
4: Scandinavia and the Low Countrie
5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands
6: The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939-1945
7: Enforced Diaspora: Italian Prisoners of War during the Second World War
8: War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941-1942
9: Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942-1945
10: Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War - Partisan War - Civil War
11: Jewish Prisoners of War: Captives of the Racial State
12: Black and Coloured Prisoners of War in Axis Hands
13: Women as Prisoners of War
14: Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers
15: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945-1948
16: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands
17: Conclusions

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 black and white figures/maps
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 242 mm
Gewicht 954 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte 1918 bis 1945
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-884039-X / 019884039X
ISBN-13 978-0-19-884039-8 / 9780198840398
Zustand Neuware
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