Author : Heather Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 48,45 MB
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0521117585
First in-depth, comparative study of the treatment of prisoners of war during the First World War.
Author : Oliver Wilkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107199425
An original investigation dedicated to the captivity experiences of British military servicemen captured by Germany in the First World War.
Author : Adolf Lucas Vischer
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 28,70 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Nervous system
ISBN :
Author : Carl von Clausewitz
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 28,71 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Military art and science
ISBN :
Author : Alon Rachamimov
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 23,47 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1472578147
Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001, London. Winner of Talmon Prize, Israel, awarded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in World War I, captivity has received only a marginal place in the collective memory of the Great War and has seemed unimportant compared with the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. Yet this book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a different picture of the War and the human misery it produced. During four years of fighting, approximately 8.5 million soldiers were taken captive, of whom nearly 2.8 million were Austro-Hungarians. This book is the first to consider in-depth the experiences of these prisoners during their period of incarceration. How were POWs treated in Russia? What was the relationship between prisoners and their home state? How were concepts of patriotism and loyalty employed and understood? Drawing extensively on original letters and diaries, Rachamimov answers these and other searching questions. In the process, major omissions in previous historiography are addressed. Anyone wishing to have a rounded history of the Great War will find this book fills a major gap.
Author : Isabel V. Hull
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2014-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0801470641
In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war. Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.
Author : Maria Teresa Giusti
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9633863562
This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter of 1942-43. On 230.000 Italians left on the Eastern front almost 100.000 did not come back home. Testimonies and memoirs from surviving veterans complement the author's intensive work in Russian and Italian archives. The study examines Italian war crimes against the Soviet civilian population and describes the particularly grim fate of the thousands of Italian military internees who after the 8 September 1943 Armistice had been sent to Germany and were subsequently captured by the Soviet army to be deported to the USSR. The book presents everyday life and death in the Soviet prisoner camps and explains the particularly high mortality among Italian prisoners. Giusti explores how well the system of prisoner labor, personally supervised by Stalin, was planned, starting in 1943. A special focus of the study is antifascist propaganda among prisoners and the infiltration of the Soviet security agencies in the camps. Stalin was keen to create a new cohort of supporters through the mass political reeducation of war prisoners, especially middle-class intellectuals and military élite. The book ends with the laborious diplomatic talks in 1946 and 1947 between USSR, Italy, and the Holy See for the repatriation of the surviving prisoners.
Author : Mischa Honeck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1108478530
This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 3034 pages
File Size : 11,88 MB
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108981704
The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 have developed significantly in the seventy years since the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) first published its Commentaries on these important humanitarian treaties. To promote a better understanding of, and respect for, this body of law, the ICRC commissioned a comprehensive update of its original Commentaries, of which this is the third volume. The Third Convention, relative to the treatment of prisoners of war and their protections, takes into account developments in the law and practice in the past seven decades to provide up-to-date interpretations of the Convention. The new Commentary has been reviewed by humanitarian law practitioners and academics from around the world. This new Commentary will be an essential tool for anyone involved with international humanitarian law.
Author : Heinz Heger
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 10,88 MB
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1642598607
For decades, history ignored the Nazi persecution of gay people. Only with the rise of the gay movement in the 1970s did historians finally recognize that gay people, like Jews and others deemed “undesirable,” suffered enormously at the hands of the Nazi regime. Of the few who survived the concentration camps, even fewer ever came forward to tell their stories. This heart wrenchingly vivid account of one man's arrest and imprisonment by the Nazis for the crime of homosexuality, now with a new preface by Sarah Schulman, remains an essential contribution to gay history and our understanding of historical fascism, as well as a remarkable and complex story of survival and identity.
