Introduction; Part I. Behind the Wire: 1. Capture; 2. The camps; 3. Routine, work and discipline; 4. Necessities of life; Part II. Prisoner Responses: 5. Resistance; 6. Leadership and organisation; 7. Friends and feuds; 8. Linking with home; Conclusion: 9. Repatriation, futures and myths.
An original investigation dedicated to the captivity experiences of British military servicemen captured by Germany in the First World War.
Oliver Wilkinson is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History, Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, having researched British captivity experiences in the First World War for a decade. His previous works include contributions to the edited collections War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century: Global Conflicts (2014) and Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity behind Barbed Wire (2012), and to the Journal of War and Culture Studies.
'In this meticulously researched book, Oliver Wilkinson tells us
why military captivity in the First World War mattered.
Significantly, he demonstrates that POW camps were not a separate
universe, divorced from fighting front and home front, but
intimately connected with both. This is a story told with passion,
but also with scholarly precision and close attention to detail.'
Matthew Stibbe, Sheffield Hallam University
'Compelling, comprehensive, and original, based on an impressive
range of sources, this book is a major contribution to the
scholarship on First World War captivity.' Heather Jones, The
London School of Economics and Political Science
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