Prisoners of war : Europe : 1939-1956 / Bob Moore.
| Author/creator |
Moore, Bob, 1954- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022. |
| Description | ix, 545 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online History |
| Subject(s) |
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| Portion of title | Europe : 1939-1956 |
| Contents | The Polish campaign and the Winter War, 1939-1940 : portents for the future -- Defeat and internment : the French army in German hands -- Scandinavia and the Low Countries -- Conventional captivity : Western Allied forces in Axis hands -- The Western Allies and their German prisoners, 1939-1945 -- Enforced diaspora : the fate of Italian prisoners of war -- War of annihilation : Russian prisoners of war on the Eastern front, 1941-1942 -- Soviet prisoners in German captivity, 1942-1945 -- Conflict in the Balkans : conventional war-partisan war-civil war -- Jewish prisoners of war -- Black, North African, and Indian prisoners of war in Axis hands -- Women as prisoners of war -- Liberation, repatriation, reintegration, retribution : the return home of Allied soldiers -- Continuing captivity : Axis soldiers in the West, 1945-1948 -- Continuing captivity : Axis soldiers in Soviet hands |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-522) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021947049 |
| ISBN | 9780198840398 |
| ISBN | 019884039X |
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