Prisoners on Cannock Chase: Great War PoWs and Brocton Camp 1526728257, 9781526728258

Over the course of many years Richard Pursehouse has painstakingly unravelled the story of a First World War prisoner of

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Prisoners on Cannock Chase: Great War PoWs and Brocton Camp
1526728257, 9781526728258

Some eight thousand immigrant-settlers of "enemy" nationality - so called enemy aliens - were interned as civi

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Following on the heels of his book The Forgotten comes a new book about the lives of Canadian prisoners of war in the Fi

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The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitio

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We Prisoners of War: Sixteen British Officers and Soldiers Speak from a German Prison Camp, first published in 1941, is

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The eternally mysterious woodlands of Cannock Chase in Staffordshire, England are known throughout the world as an entry

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This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter

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This book reconstructs the fate of Italian prisoners of war captured by the Red Army between August 1941 and the winter

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Focusing on these and other thematic issues, Bohdan Kordan assesses the policy and practice of civilian internment in Ca

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"Headaches. Dizziness. Can't sleep. Bad dreams (never have been released). The rice jungle had some compensati

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Military and civilian captivity practices by four major European powers and the United States during World War I are sur

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