Prisoners Diplomats And The Great War

Author : Richard Speed
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0313267294
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War written by Richard Speed and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military and civilian captivity practices by four major European powers and the United States during World War I are surveyed in this book. Speed argues that while the pressures of total war, as they emerged during the conflict, drove the belligerents to violate many of the norms of war, they attempted to behave in accordance with a liberal tradition of captivity which held that prisoners of war were merely men whom nobody had a right to harm. Aside from a few journal articles that deal with small aspects of the topic, there is no other scholarly work that focuses on captivity during the First World War. Speed makes extensive use of rarely cited American diplomatic records in order to offer a more objective view of camp conditions. A special feature is the depiction of American camps in France drawn from previously uncited War Department records. The book explores the radical tradition of captivity that emerged in the Soviet Union. This tradition held that the prisoner was not merely a man for whom the war was over, but that he was a potential recruit in the class war whose national loyalty could be subverted in the interest of the ideological conflict. Thus, while the Western world entered the war with a single tradition of captivity, it emerged from the conflict with two antithetical traditions. While the United States and Western Europe in general have clung to the liberal tradition, third world revolutionary states like Vietnam and North Korea have embraced the radical tradition. This book is essential reading for all scholars and students of modern European/American diplomatic and military history. Government officials involved with hostages or prisoners of war will also find much of value here.

Author : Richard Speed
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War written by Richard Speed and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military and civilian captivity practices by four major European powers and the United States during World War I are surveyed in this book. Speed argues that while the pressures of total war, as they emerged during the conflict, drove the belligerents to violate many of the norms of war, they attempted to behave in accordance with a liberal tradition of captivity which held that prisoners of war were merely men whom nobody had a right to harm. Aside from a few journal articles that deal with small aspects of the topic, there is no other scholarly work that focuses on captivity during the First World War. Speed makes extensive use of rarely cited American diplomatic records in order to offer a more objective view of camp conditions. A special feature is the depiction of American camps in France drawn from previously uncited War Department records. The book explores the radical tradition of captivity that emerged in the Soviet Union. This tradition held that the prisoner was not merely a man for whom the war was over, but that he was a potential recruit in the class war whose national loyalty could be subverted in the interest of the ideological conflict. Thus, while the Western world entered the war with a single tradition of captivity, it emerged from the conflict with two antithetical traditions. While the United States and Western Europe in general have clung to the liberal tradition, third world revolutionary states like Vietnam and North Korea have embraced the radical tradition. This book is essential reading for all scholars and students of modern European/American diplomatic and military history. Government officials involved with hostages or prisoners of war will also find much of value here.

Author : Kenneth Steuer
Publisher : Gutenberg
ISBN 13 : 9780231130288
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pursuit of an '"unparalleled Opportunity" written by Kenneth Steuer and published by Gutenberg. This book was released on 2009 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This analysis of the general subject of WWI prisoners of war focuses on the role of a non-governmental association in confronting the increasingly chaotic conditions of East Europe.

Author : Carl P Dennett
Publisher : War College Series
ISBN 13 : 9781298480057
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Great War written by Carl P Dennett and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Author : Benjamin DeWhitt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756708771
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees written by Benjamin DeWhitt and published by . This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference information paper issued by the National Archives and Records Administration covers records pertaining to both American military personnel who were captured by Axis forces and American civilians who were detained by the Axis powers during World War II. For the most part, "civilian internees" were included with POWs in inquiries, diplomatic correspondence, War Dept. accounts, and even some postwar records. Their consideration was so intermixed with that of POWs, that it is not advisable to treat them separately. The reverse is true in the records of the U.S. Dept. of State, wherein information on POWs is intermixed with that on civilian internees.

Author : Alon Rachamimov
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book POWs and the Great War written by Alon Rachamimov and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 2002-07 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001, London. Winner of Talmon Prize, Israel, awarded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in World War I, captivity has received only a marginal place in the collective memory of the Great War and has seemed unimportant compared with the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. Yet this book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a different picture of the War and the human misery it produced. During four years of fighting, approximately 8.5 million soldiers were taken captive, of whom nearly 2.8 million were Austro-Hungarians. This book is the first to consider in-depth the experiences of these prisoners during their period of incarceration. How were POWs treated in Russia? What was the relationship between prisoners and their home state? How were concepts of patriotism and loyalty employed and understood? Drawing extensively on original letters and diaries, Rachamimov answers these and other searching questions. In the process, major omissions in previous historiography are addressed. Anyone wishing to have a rounded history of the Great War will find this book fills a major gap.

Author : Carl P Dennett
Publisher : War College Series
ISBN 13 : 9781296102340
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Great War written by Carl P Dennett and published by War College Series. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are reproductions of historical works preserved by some of the leading libraries in the world. As with any reproduction of a historical artifact, some of these books contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe these books are essential to this collection and the study of war, and have therefore brought them back into print, despite these imperfections.We hope you enjoy the unmatched breadth and depth of this collection, from the historical to the just-published works.

Author : Richard Van Emden
Publisher : Pen & Sword Military
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of the Kaiser written by Richard Van Emden and published by Pen & Sword Military. This book was released on 2000 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the memories of the last surviving prisoners of the 1914-1918 war, this book tells the dramatic story of life as a POW in Germany. Stories include the shock of capture on the Western Front, to the grind of daily life in imprisonment in Germany. Veterans recall work in salt mines, punishments, and escape attempts, as well as the torture of starvation and the relief at their eventual release. Vivid stories are told using over 200 photographs and illustrations, almost all never published before.

Author : Heather Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139867059
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence against Prisoners of War in the First World War written by Heather Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Heather Jones provides the first in-depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalised captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of war and led to new forms of forced prisoner labour and reprisals, which fuelled wartime propaganda that was often based on accurate prisoner testimony. This book reveals how, during the conflict, increasing numbers of captives were not sent to home front camps but retained in western front working units to labour directly for the British, French and German armies - in the German case, by 1918, prisoners working for the German army endured widespread malnutrition and constant beatings. Dr Jones examines the significance of these new, violent trends and their later legacy, arguing that the Great War marked a key turning-point in the twentieth-century evolution of the prison camp.

Author : Tighe Hopkins
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230466200
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prisoners of War written by Tighe Hopkins and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...activity is of service in the war: such as higher officials, diplomatic agents, couriers, guides, etc.; also all persons who being at liberty may be harmful to the opposing State--such as prominent and influential political leaders, journalists, local authorities, clergymen, and teachers, in case they incite the population to resistance." The prisoner of war may profitably remember that he is the captive, not of the individuals who happen to have seized him, but of the enemy Government which they represent; and it is expressly stipulated in the Hague Rules that "they must be humanely treated." The prisoner is bound, if questioned, to state his name and rank; but cannot lawfully be compelled to answer any other question whatever. I have shown the death of a hero among French Boy Scouts (and this, when the war is at an end, should be in some way commemorated by the Boy Scouts of the world). The shooting of any prisoner in circumstances inch as these has been denounced by Kriegsbrauch himself, in a work edited by the German Great General Staff, as "cowardly murder." By the Hague Rules all the personal belongings of a prisoner of war--arms, horses, and military papers excepted--remain his property. If, however, a 1000 note were found on him, it would certainly be held by his captors until the conclusion of the war, since a trifling fortune of that sort might facilitate the prisoner's escape. Attempting to escape, he may, of course, be fired upon. Retaken after an escape, he would probably undergo some form of "disciplinary punishment "; would be allowed a very small measure of liberty, and might be clapped in a dungeon. If escapes are frequent, the net is naturally drawn somewhat closer around the...