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Author : Benjamin G. O'Rorke
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (133 download)
Download or read book In the Hands of the Enemy, Being the Experiences of a Prisoner of War written by Benjamin G. O'Rorke and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke
Publisher : London : Longmans, Green
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Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book In the Hands of the Enemy written by Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1915 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781018768298
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (682 download)
Download or read book In The Hands Of The Enemy written by Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230412122
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (121 download)
Download or read book In the Hands of the Enemy; Being the Experiences of a Prisoner of War written by Benjamin Garniss O'Rorke and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 34 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. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ... At length, on Friday morning, the journey came to an end on our arrival at Torgau. We were ordered out of the train and drawn up on the platform in fours. Each officer carried what articles of clothing he possessed. Several of them had preserved their medical panniers, and, heavy as these were, they had to be carried or left behind. On either side of us a German guard with fixed bayonets was drawn up, and then was given shoulder, there was no man could be bolder, yet this same bundle and the burning sun prevented there being anything "quick" about our march. The townsfolk evidently had heard that we were coming, and they were at the station gate in scores to show us how pleased they were to welcome us to their town. In fact, they told us quite freely what they thought of us and the nation which we represented. They walked beside us every inch of the way, keeping up our spirits by telling us the particular kind of Schtveinhunds they believed the Englander to be. Not until they had crossed the massive bridge which spans the Elbe and reached the Briickenkopf fortress did they turn back home, and the doors of the fortress closed behind us. Torgau is a Slav word meaning market. The town bearing that name has many historical associations. It figures in a document dating back to 973. In the Thirty Years War a portion of it was burnt. Amongst the distinguished names connected with it are Frederick the Great and Martin Luther. A statue of the former adorns one of its streets, and the Schloss on the opposite side of the river is inseparably bound up with the career of the latter. For in Luther's time a meeting was held there which decided upon the dialect into which the Bible was to be translated. Torgau, therefore, can be considered the cradle of...
Author : Robert Doyle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173833
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Enemy in Our Hands written by Robert Doyle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelations of abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war on terror marked a watershed moment in the study of modern warfare and the treatment of prisoners of war. Amid allegations of human rights violations and war crimes, one question stands out among the rest: Was the treatment of America’s most recent prisoners of war an isolated event or part of a troubling and complex issue that is deeply rooted in our nation’s military history? Military expert Robert C. Doyle’s The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror draws from diverse sources to answer this question. Historical as well as timely in its content, this work examines America’s major wars and past conflicts—among them, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and Vietnam—to provide understanding of the United States’ treatment of military and civilian prisoners. The Enemy in Our Hands offers a new perspective of U.S. military history on the subject of EPWs and suggests that the tactics employed to manage prisoners of war are unique and disparate from one conflict to the next. In addition to other vital information, Doyle provides a cultural analysis and exploration of U.S. adherence to international standards of conduct, including the 1929 Geneva Convention in each war. Although wars are not won or lost on the basis of how EPWs are treated, the treatment of prisoners is one of the measures by which history’s conquerors are judged.
Author : Charles W. Sanders, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130612
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book While in the Hands of the Enemy written by Charles W. Sanders, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the four years of the American Civil War, over 400,000 soldiers -- one in every seven who served in the Union and Confederate armies -- became prisoners of war. In northern and southern prisons alike, inmates suffered horrific treatment. Even healthy young soldiers often sickened and died within weeks of entering the stockades. In all, nearly 56,000 prisoners succumbed to overcrowding, exposure, poor sanitation, inadequate medical care, and starvation. Historians have generally blamed prison conditions and mortality rates on factors beyond the control of Union and Confederate command, but Charles W. Sanders, Jr., boldly challenges the conventional view and demonstrates that leaders on both sides deliberately and systematically ordered the mistreatment of captives.Sanders shows how policies developed during the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Mexican War shaped the management of Civil War prisons. He examines the establishment of the major camps as well as the political motivations and rationale behind the operation of the prisons, focusing especially on Camp Douglas, Elmira, Camp Chase, and Rock Island in the North and Andersonville, Cahaba, Florence, and Danville in the South. Beyond a doubt, he proves that the administrations of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis purposely formulated and carried out retaliatory practices designed to harm prisoners of war, with each assuming harsher attitudes as the conflict wore on.Sanders cites official and personal correspondence from high-level civilian and military leaders who knew about the intolerable conditions but often refused to respond or even issued orders that made matters far worse. From such documents emerges a chilling chronicle of how prisoners came to be regarded not as men but as pawns to be used and then callously discarded in pursuit of national objectives. Yet even before the guns fell silent, Sanders reveals, both North and South were hard at work constructing elaborate justifications for their actions.While in the Hands of the Enemy offers a groundbreaking revisionist interpretation of the Civil War military prison system, challenging historians to rethink their understanding of nineteenth-century warfare.
Author : Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries
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Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed... written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473826497
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book 1914 written by Matthew Richardson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening battles of WWI’s Western Front and the world-changing advances in warfare are reexamined through eyewitness accounts from the trenches. The 1914 campaign of World War I, sparked by the German Army’s invasion of Luxembourg, Belgium, and France, marked a watershed in military history. Advances in weaponry forced both sides to take to the earth in what became a grueling standoff of trench warefare. In a bizarre mix of ancient and modern, some of the last cavalry charges took place in the same theatre in which armoured cars, motorcycles and aeroplanes were beginning to make their presence felt. These dramatic developments were recorded in graphic detail by soldiers who were there in the trenches themselves. Now, with the benefit of these firsthand accounts, historian Matthew Richardson offers a thoroughgoing reassessment of the 1914 campaign. His vivid narrative emphasises the perspective of the private soldiers and junior officers of the British Army and includes full colour plates containing over one hundred illustrations. 1914: Voices from the Battlefields was a Britain At War Magazine Book of the Month in February 2014.
Author : Karen Horn
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868426521
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book In Enemy Hands written by Karen Horn and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'To all intents and purposes I am as sexless as a block of wood. To eat is the extreme fundamental of living.' - South African POW, 1942 Books on World War II abound, yet there are remarkably few publications on South Africa's role in this war, which had such an influence on how we live today. There is even less written about those who participated on the margins of the war, especially those who were physically removed from the battlefields through capture by enemy forces. South Africa's prisoners of war during World War II, their experiences and recollections, are largely forgotten. That is until now. Historian Karen Horn painstakingly tracked down a number of former POWs. Together with written memoirs and archival documents, their interviews reveal rich narratives of hardship, endurance, humour, longing and self-discovery. Instead of fighting, these men adapted to another war, one which was fought on the inside of many prison camps. It was a war against hunger and deprivation, at times against ever-encroaching despondency and low morale amongst their companions in captivity. In their interviews, all the POWs expressed surprise at being asked to share their experiences of almost 70 years earlier. The author found it astonishing that almost all of them claimed not to be heroes of any kind. Perhaps this is not surprising when one considers that they returned home in 1945 to a country which soon afterwards tried its utmost to promote national amnesia with regard to its participation in the war. With great insight and empathy, Karen Horn shines a light on a neglected corner of South African history.
Author : Frederick William Theodor Lange
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book Books on the Great War written by Frederick William Theodor Lange and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1046 pages
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Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 632 pages
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Author : Daniel Krebs
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806189037
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book A Generous and Merciful Enemy written by Daniel Krebs and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers’ letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners’ responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a “generous and merciful enemy” to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.
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Total Pages : 640 pages
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