Barbed Wire Disease: British and German Prisoners of War 1914-1919
Publisher: Spellmount
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Stroud, Gloucestershire, UK
Format: ebook
ISBN-13: 9780752472621
Description: From the Preface...

This study concentrates on British and German prisoners taken on the Western Front, where alleged neglect and ill-treatment became the subject of major propaganda campaigns in both countries. It looks at day-to-day problems as they unfolded and at the more major disputes which were to arise, drawing heavily on published and unpublished official documents, as well as contemporary newspapers and other accounts. This book also identifies many examples of hardship and ill-treatment and some of deliberate physical abuse. But the full story of prisoners in the Great War goes beyond a simple narrative of their experiences and the conditions they faced. That is not to say that these issues are not important, because from the point of view of individual prisoners they are, after all, what really mattered. But such conditions need to be seen against the wider background of the diplomatic, political and military objectives which gave rise to them. This study sets the wider context.
Table of contents: label: Preface; label: Introduction; title: Civilians: The Innocent Bystanders
label: 1; title: Applying the Conventions
label: 2; title: Germany: Problems & Inspections
label: 3; title: The British Experience
label: 4; title: Wittenberg, Gardelegen & Typhus
label: 5; title: From Capture to the Camps
label: 6; title: Reprisals
label: 7; title: Parcels, Assistance & Relief
label: 8; title: Daily Life in Germany
label: 9; title: Daily Life in the UK
label: 10; title: Exchanges, Internments & Agreements
label: 11; title: The Armistice & Repatriation
label: 12; title: Leipzig: The Aftermath
label: 13; label: Notes; label: Bibliography; label: Acknowledgements