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Informationen zum Autor Heather Jones is a Bear Valley Bible Institute Alumni with a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies, a women's speaker and Bible class teacher, and a professional photographer. She is a minister's wife and mom of two girls in Huron, South Dakota. Heather loves iced chai tea lattes, long walks with her family, and all things blush-colored. She believes, "helping women fall in love with learning God's Word is one of the most beautiful things in life. We are never done being students!" Klappentext First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War. Zusammenfassung This groundbreaking study provides the first in-depth examination of violence against First World War prisoners. It shows how the war radicalised captivity treatment in Britain! France and Germany and dramatically undermined international humanitarian law! and reveals how prisoners were often retained to labour directly for the armies of their captors. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Propaganda Representations of Violence Against Prisoners: 1. Encountering the 'enemy': civilian violence towards prisoners of war in 1914; 2. Legitimate and illegitimate violence against prisoners: representations of atrocity, 1914-16; Part II. Violence and Prisoner of War Forced Labour: 3. The development of prisoner of war labour companies on the Western Front: the spring reprisals of 1917; 4. From discipline to retribution: violence in German prisoner of war labour companies in 1918; 5. Inevitable escalation? British and French treatment of forced prisoner labour, 1917-18; Part III. The End of Violence? Repatriation and Remembrance: 6. Contested homecomings: prisoner repatriation and the formation of memory, 1918-21; 7. La grande illusion: the interwar historicisation of violence against prisoners of war, 1922-39; Epilogue: the legacy of First World War captivity in 1939-45; Conclusion.
