Violence against prisoners of war in the First World War: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920

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Machine generated contents note: 1. Encountering the 'enemy': civilian violence towards prisoners of war in 1914 -- 2. Legitimate and illegitimate violence against prisoners: representations of atrocity, 1914-16 -- 3. The development of prisoner of war labour companies on the western front: the spring reprisals of 1917 -- 4. From discipline to retribution: violence in German prisoner of war labour companies in 1918 -- 5. Inevitable escalation? British and French treatment of forced prisoner labour, 1917-18 -- 6. Contested homecomings: prisoner repatriation and the formation of memory, 1918-21 -- 7. La Grande Illusion: the interwar historicisation of violence against prisoners of war, 1922-39. Machine generated contents note: 1. Encountering the 'enemy': civilian violence towards prisoners of war in 1914 -- 2. Legitimate and illegitimate violence against prisoners: representations of atrocity, 1914-16 -- 3. The development of prisoner of war labour companies on the western front: the spring reprisals of 1917 -- 4. From discipline to retribution: violence in German prisoner of war labour companies in 1918 -- 5. Inevitable escalation? British and French treatment of forced prisoner labour, 1917-18 -- 6. Contested homecomings: prisoner repatriation and the formation of memory, 1918-21 -- 7. La Grande Illusion: the interwar historicisation of violence against prisoners of war, 1922-39.