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Prisoners of Britain : German civilian and combatant internees during the First World War / Panikos Panayi.

By: Panayi, PanikosPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press 2012. Description: xvi, 342 p. : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN: 9780719095634; 0719078342 (hbk.)Subject(s): World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, British | World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German | Prisoners of war -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century | Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 940.5 LOC classification: D627. | G7P36 2012
Contents:
1. Forgetting, remembering and the beginnings of a history 2. Arrest, transportation and capture 3. The camp system 4. Barbed wire disease and the grim realities of internment 5. Prison camp societies 6. Employment 7. Public opinion 8. Escape, release and return 9. The meaning of internment in Britain during the First World War
Summary: During the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. Using a vast range of contemporary British and German sources the volume traces life experiences through initial arrest and capture to life behind barbed wire to return to Germany or to the remnants of the ethnically cleansed German community in Britain. The book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the history of prisoners of war or the First World War and will also appeal to scholars and students of twentieth-century Europe and the human consequences of war.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [310]-330) and index.

1. Forgetting, remembering and the beginnings of a history 2. Arrest, transportation and capture 3. The camp system 4. Barbed wire disease and the grim realities of internment 5. Prison camp societies 6. Employment 7. Public opinion 8. Escape, release and return 9. The meaning of internment in Britain during the First World War

During the First World War hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This is the first book on these German prisoners, almost a century after the conflict. The book covers the three different types of internees in Britain in the form of: civilians already present in the country in August 1914; civilians brought to Britain from all over the world; and combatants. Using a vast range of contemporary British and German sources the volume traces life experiences through initial arrest and capture to life behind barbed wire to return to Germany or to the remnants of the ethnically cleansed German community in Britain. The book will prove essential reading for anyone interested in the history of prisoners of war or the First World War and will also appeal to scholars and students of twentieth-century Europe and the human consequences of war.