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Prisoners of the Kaiser: The Last POWs of the Great War

By Richard Van Emden

Book information

Publisher
pen & sword
Year
2000
ISBN
0850527341, 9780850527346
LCC
D627.G3 V33 2000
Open Library ID
OL3533186M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
117 MB (122170851 bytes)
Pages
106\106
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The back-and-forth fortunes of war from 1914 to 1918 created a large number of prisoners of war on both sides. While prisoners were generally treated much better than in World War II, surviving prisoners could tell many tales of privation and heroism. The British mass escape from Colditz Castle became a military legend, but numerous other soldiers remained in obscure and unglamorous captivity. The author has drawn on existing accounts as well as a surprising number of POWs who were still living during his researches of recent years. The moving text is supplemented by 200 photos, most of them rare, of newly-captured soldiers marching under guard (most tried to march in as correct a formation as possible) and daily life in the camps, and the numerous letters, drawings and other artifacts that have survived. Soon to be a BBC documentary.

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