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Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
I expect that this will cover the many aircrews who became POWs.
Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1955 (Oxford University Press - 7 April 2022 / 7 May 2022 USA) by Bob Moore, Emeritus University of Sheffield 544 pages w/ 20 b&w photos - hardcover UK £35.00 US $45.00 "The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform - even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity. While it is impossible to encompass their collective histories, let alone the individual experiences of all twenty million prisoners in a single volume, Bob Moore uses a series of case studies to highlight the key elements involved and to introduce, analyse, and refine some of the major debates that have arisen in the existing historiography. The study is divided into three broad sections: captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war itself, comparative studies of specific categories of prisoners, and the repatriation and reintegration of prisoners after the war." 1. Introduction 2. The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939-1940: Portents for the Future 3. Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands 4. Scandinavia and the Low Countrie 5. Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands 6. The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939-1945 7. Enforced Diaspora: Italian Prisoners of War during the Second World War 8. War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941-1942 9. Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942-1945 10. Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War - Partisan War - Civil War 11. Jewish Prisoners of War: Captives of the Racial State 12. Black and Coloured Prisoners of War in Axis Hands 13. Women as Prisoners of War 14. Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers 15. Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945-1948 16. Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands 17. Conclusions Bob Moore, Emeritus Professor of European History, University of Sheffield "Bob Moore is Emeritus Professor of European History at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the history of Western Europe in the mid twentieth century, including Victims and Survivors: the Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 (1997); Resistance in Western Europe (2000); Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States (with Frank Caestecker, 2009) and his most recent monograph, Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He has recently completed the editing (with Johannes Houwink ten Cate) of De Geheime Dagboek van Arnold Douwes (2018) and its translation as The Secret Diary of Arnold Douwes (2019). His work on prisoners of war includes The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War 1940-1947 (with Kent Fedorowich, 2003) as well as several journal articles." https://global.oup.com/academic/prod...lang=en&cc=us# |
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
....but 20 photos? Looks like another academic study
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
What's wrong with that? Given the subject, photos are basically fillers. It isn't by accident that babies' first books are are pictorials.
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
Let's hope Dr. Moore's study cleans up the fabricated myth perpetuated by this university professor 12 to 15 years ago (Google his name):
Bacque, James, Other Losses: An Investigation into the Mass Deaths of German Prisoners at the Hands of the French and Americans after World War II, 3rd edition, Vancouver: Talonbooks, 2011. L. |
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
One nowadays would expect a few more photos in a 544 page book. I would disagree as to photos being "fillers"-I used them to illustrate a point and add to the readers understanding. If inserted in a text they break up the words and help show a reader what is being written about
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
...............and in the modern world of today, photos play a BIG ROLE in selling the book! A book on a World War II topic doesn't go far without a goodly selection of photos.
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
I don't think photos is anything modern. I have books going back to when dinosaurs... I mean the early days, and photos, especially unpublished photos, would almost always turn a book I was looking at into a purchase.
A number of books have been published about German prisoners of war, including those sent to the U.S. and Canada. Best, Ed |
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
Just now in front of me is a book titled The Rommel Papers. 546 pages, maybe 10 - 15 photos. And that book has been reprinted over 10 times.
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
Materiality, Jukka, materiality (the quality or character of being material). Your 10 to 15 photos passes the test; zero (0) photos does not.
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Re: Upcoming Comprehensive History of Prisoners of War in Europe
An aspect probably not discussed in this book is the civilians taken into captivity, mostly by Soviet forces. From present-day Hungary alone, hundreds of thousands of civilians (the number of accounted people by information available in the 1990s was 76843 men, 17945 women and children) ended up in forced labour camps in the USSR, for years, many never returned home. Often, people were grabbed, at random, by Soviet soldiers from railway stations and fields, when prisoner trains were passing through, to complete the number of dead and escapees.
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