Barbed wire diplomacy
Subtitle: Britain, Germany, and the politics of prisoners of war, 1939-1945
By: Neville Wylie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780199547593
Subjects: Prisoners of war; Weltkrieg (1939-1945); Government policy; Foreign relations; World War, 1939-1945; Kriegsgefangener; German Prisoners and prisons
Description: "Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned in the pursuit of political, strategic, and ideological goals, in this important area of Anglo-German relations, customary international norms were both resilient and effective." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-297) and index.
Table of contents: title: Explaining coordination and cooperation in Anglo-German Relations, 1939-1945; title: Building the interwar POW regime; title: POWs and Anglo-German relations, 1939-1941; title: The amateurs try their hand : the provision of relief parcels, 1940-1941; title: The POW regime, October 1941-December 1942 : from "cooperation" to "coordination"; title: The shadow of the shackling crisis, 1943; title: The role of the Dominions in British POW policy; title: The limits of attraction : British POW policy and the "Great Escape", 1944; title: Avoiding Götterdämmerung, 1945.