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Barbed wire disease : British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19 / John Yarnall.

Title
Barbed wire disease : British & German prisoners of war, 1914-19 / John Yarnall.
Author
Yarnall, John
Publication
Stroud : History Press, 2011.

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Description
224 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
By the time of the Armistice in 1918, some 6.5 million prisoners of war were held by the belligerents. Little has been written about these prisoners, possibly because the story is not one of unmitigated hardship and cruelty.
Alternative Title
British and German prisoners of war, 1914-19
Subject
  • BMBF-Statusseminar
  • 1900 - 1999
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Prisoners and prisons > History
  • World War, 1914-1918 > Concentration camps > History
  • Prisoner-of-war camps > Germany
  • Prisoner-of-war camps > Great Britain
  • Kriegsgefangener
  • Weltkrieg (1914-1918)
  • Deutschland
  • Großbritannien
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Civilians : the innocent bystanders -- Applying the conventions -- Germany : problems and inspections -- The British experience -- Wittenberg, Gardelegen and typhus -- From capture to the camps -- Reprisals -- Parcels, assistance and relief -- Daily life in Germany -- Daily life in the UK -- Exchanges, internments, and agreements -- The Armistice and repatriation -- Leipzig : the aftermath.
ISBN
  • 9780752456904 (pbk)
  • 0752456903 (pbk)
OCLC
  • 742950927
  • SCSB-10530126
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library