Encyclopedia of Prisoners of War and Internment

Presenting nearly 300 signed A‐Z entries, mostly with short reading lists, supported by a six‐page bibliography, and lengthy extracts from four relevant texts, what this instructive new encyclopedia, compiled by a team of 85 mainly North American academics, makes clear is that being a POW is not a matter of merry japes with Richard Wattis and the boys tunnelling out of Oflag XXVIII, aided by a set of apparently short‐sighted and totally inadequate goons but, more often than not, a demoralising experience at best and, at worst, in extreme cases, one more example of man’s inhumanity to man.

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