Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace [Hardcover]

Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different. Their history, both during and after the War, has largely been ignored in the grand narratives of the conflict. This collection brings together new scholarship, largely based on sources from previously unavailable Eastern European or Japanese archives. Authors highlight a number of important comparatives. Whereas for the British and Americans held by the Germans and Japanese, the end of the war meant a swift repatriation and demobilization, for the Germans, it heralded the beginning of an imprisonment that, for some, lasted until 1956. These and many more moving stories are revealed here for the first time.

Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace--Edited by Bob Moore and Barbara Hately-Broad
Overview--Pieter Lagrou
The Repatriation of POWs at the End of Hostilities--Rudiger Overmans
Prisoners and their Captors
British Perceptions of Italian Prisoners-of-War, 1940-1947--Bob Moore
Hatred within Limits. German Prisoners of War and Polish Society 1945-1950--Jerzy Kochanowski
Japanese Deserters and Prisoners of War In the Battle of Okinawa--Hirofumi Hayashi
Re-Education
Re-educating the German Prisoners of War: Aims, Methods, Results and Memory in East and West Germany--Andreas Hilger
Antifascist Propaganda among Italian War Prisoners in the USSR. 1941-1946--Maria-Theresa Giusti
The Nucleus of a New German Ideology? The Re-education of German Prisoners of War in the United States during World War II--Matthias Reiss
Homecoming
Coping in Britain and France: A Comparison of Family Issues Affecting the Homecoming of Prisoners of War following the Second World War--Barbara Hately-Broad
The Unhomeliness of their Homeland: Japanese POWs in Siberil30