Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War

Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World WarDescription by Heather Jones Paperback In this groundbreaking new study, Heather Jones provides the first in depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalized captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of war and led to new forms of forced prisoner labour and reprisals, which fuelled wartime propaganda that was often

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This detailed history places the campaign in context of Allied operations in the Middle East and sheds light on several unsung heroes of the war

as the scholarship on gender and this war has grown

but also what drove the conflict onwards and how it continued to escalate

although his father had been blinded during the Civil War

Only in the 1960s and 1970s did the gendered imagination begin to alter--yet the process is far from complete

From Surrealism to Oswald Spengler's The Decline of the West

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and his records languished unexamined until now

She finds that the country and the conscripts―in their view―entered into a certain social compact

an instructor of Decorative Metal Working at Columbia University's Teachers College in New York City

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