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Author : David J. Carter
Publisher : Elkwater, Alta. : Eagle Butte Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book POW, Behind Canadian Barbed Wire written by David J. Carter and published by Elkwater, Alta. : Eagle Butte Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David J. Carter
Publisher : Calgary : Tumbleweed Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Behind Canadian Barbed Wire written by David J. Carter and published by Calgary : Tumbleweed Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anita Buck
Publisher : North Star Press of St. Cloud
ISBN 13 : 9780878391134
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Behind Barbed Wire written by Anita Buck and published by North Star Press of St. Cloud. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than fifteen POW camps housing German captives existed in Minnesota during World War II. This is the history of those camps, where they were, how they worked, and how the POW's contributed to Minnesota economy, and how and when they ended.
Author : Martin F. Auger
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774841532
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Home Front written by Martin F. Auger and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, the Second World War, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Auger concludes that Canada abided by the Geneva Convention; its treatment of German prisoners was humane. This book sheds light on life behind barbed wire, filling an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
Author : Gilly Carr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136322361
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War written by Gilly Carr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2012-04-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW memoirs and diaries, this book argues for a central role of all items of creativity in helping us to understand the true experience of life in captivity. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world, to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material.
Author : J. Frank Diggs
Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780743474825
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Americans Behind the Barbed Wire written by J. Frank Diggs and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling memoir of survival in a German POW camp is the uplifting story of endurance, sacrifice, and courage that never made headlines, but was just as real as the great battles of World War II.
Author : Jonathan F. Vance
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774842792
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Objects of Concern written by Jonathan F. Vance and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen thousand Canadians were captured during Canada's twientieth-century wars. They experienced the bewilderment that accompanied the moment of capture, the humiliation of being completely in the captor's power, and the sense of stagnating in a backwater while the rest of the world moved forward. Jonathan Vance provides the first comprehensive account of how the Canadian government and non-governmental organizations have dealt with the problems of prisoners of war, examining Canada's role in the formation of aspects of international law, the growth and activities of national and local philanthropic agencies, and the efforts of ex-prisoners to secure compensation for the long-term effects of captivity.
Author : Tim Wolter
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786411863
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (118 download)
Download or read book POW Baseball in World War II written by Tim Wolter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 130,000 American soldiers and 19,000 American civilians were captured by the enemy during the Second World War. The conditions under which they were held varied enormously but baseball, in various forms, was a common activity among these prisoners of war. Not just Americans, but Canadians, British, Australians and New Zealanders took the field, as well as the Japanese and even a few Germans. In the best of the German Stalags (permanent German camps where these prisoners were held, shortened from Stamm Lagers) there were often several leagues active at a time, with dozens of teams playing games continuously during the warm weather months. In the harsher Stalags, and in some Japanese camps, there was only makeshift ball playing. In places like Camp O'Donnell, the worst of the camps, there was no energy left for anything but the struggle to survive. This work is the story of POW baseball, complete with guard versus prisoner ball games, radio parts hidden in baseballs, and future major leaguers. The book is divided into the various prison camps and describes the types of prisoners held there and the degree to which baseball was played.
Author : Ruth Beaumont Cook
Publisher : Ruth Beaumont Cook
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Guests Behind the Barbed Wire written by Ruth Beaumont Cook and published by Ruth Beaumont Cook. This book was released on 2007 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A significant and unique contribution to World War II literature, this book chronicles in meticulous detail the building and operation of the largest German prisoner-of-war (POW) camp in the United States in Aliceville, Alabama. This history discusses how the residents of Aliceville helped build, operate, and supply the camp, as well as become inextricably intertwined with camp life and the 6,000 German POWs held there. Focusing on the relations between the captured Germans and local Americans, this title investigates the nature of war, peace, and the principles of human dignity.
Author : Alexander Mikaberidze
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Behind Barbed Wire written by Alexander Mikaberidze and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indispensable reference on concentration camps, death camps, prisoner-of-war camps, and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict. This comprehensive reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide, with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries and particular attention paid to World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as it has been used as a weapon and led to crimes against humanity and is ideal for students of global studies, history, and political science as well as politically and socially aware general readers. In addition to entries on such notorious camps as Abu Ghraib, Andersonville, Auschwitz, and the Hanoi Hilton, the encyclopedia includes profiles of key perpetrators of camp and prison atrocities and more than a dozen curated and contextualized primary source documents that further illuminate the subject. Primary sources include United Nations documents outlining the treatment of prisoners of war, government reports of infamous camp and prison atrocities, and oral histories from survivors of these notorious facilities.
Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1845137272
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Barbed-Wire University written by Midge Gillies and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured . . . a riveting collection of stories.” —The Guardian Feature films like The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But, as Midge Gillies shows in this groundbreaking work of social history, the true experiences of nearly half a million Allied servicemen held captive during the Second World War were nothing like the Hollywood myth—and infinitely more extraordinary. The real lives of POWs saw them respond to the tedium of a German stalag or the brutality of a Japanese camp with the most amazing ingenuity and creativity. They staged glittering shows, concerts and elaborate sporting fixtures, made exquisite ornaments—even, amid the terrible privations of the Thailand-Burma railway, improvised daring surgical techniques to save their fellow men’s lives. Whatever skills or hobbies they took with them to captivity they managed to continue and adapt—to the extent of laying out a 9-hole golf course between the huts of one German camp. They took up crafts and pastimes using materials they found around them: even the string from a Red Cross food parcel was used to make cricket balls, football nets and wigs for theatrical performances. Men studied, attended lectures, learned languages, sat for qualifications and exams, on such a scale that one camp was nicknamed “The Barbed-Wire University.” Drawing on letters home, diaries and interviews with redoubtable survivors now into their nineties, Midge Gillies recreates the daily lives of a truly remarkable group of men. “Astonishing tales of improvisation, ingenuity and courage.” —The Spectator
Author : John Melady
Publisher : Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Escape from Canada! written by John Melady and published by Vancouver, B.C. : Crane Library. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard G. Hennes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781577363279
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (632 download)
Download or read book The Barbed Wire written by Gerhard G. Hennes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: young soldier captured during World War II is sent to a prisoner of war camp in a small town, where he stays until the German surrender. Not an unfamiliar story?except the soldier is German, and the POW camp is in Crossville, Tennessee. In his powerful true story, Gerhard Hennes shares his adventures as a POW in the United States and openly reveals the personal hopes, fears, joys, and sorrows of a young man growing disillusioned with Hitler's Germany. Rich with tales of escape, interrogation by high ranking Allied officers, travel on the "Queen Mary" (converted for troop transport), and day-to-day life as a prisoner of war, "The Barbed Wire is both a first-hand account of this near-forgotten chapter in U.S. history and the memoir of a German family surviving during World War II.
Author : Neville Wylie
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613878
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Barbed Wire Diplomacy written by Neville Wylie and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbed Wire Diplomacy examines how the United Kingdom government went about protecting the interests, lives and well-being of its prisoners of war (POWs) in Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. The comparatively good treatment of British prisoners in Germany has largely been explained by historians in terms of rational self-interest, reciprocity, and influence of Nazi racism, which accorded Anglo-Saxon servicemen a higher status than other categories of POWs. By contrast, Neville Wylie offers a more nuanced picture of Anglo-German relations and the politics of prisoners of war. Drawing on British, German, United States and Swiss sources, he argues that German benevolence towards British POWs stemmed from London's success in working through neutral intermediaries, notably its protecting power (the United States and Switzerland) and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to promote German compliance with the 1929 Geneva convention, and building and sustaining a relationship with the German government that was capable of withstanding the corrosive effects of five years of warfare. Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned in the pursuit of political, strategic and ideological goals, in this important area of Anglo-German relations, customary international norms were both resilient and effective.
Author : Ernest Robert Zimmermann
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772120316
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (721 download)
Download or read book The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior written by Ernest Robert Zimmermann and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2015-12-15 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1,145 prisoners of war in Red Rock, Ontario (about 100 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay). Camp R interned friend and foe alike: Nazis, anti-Nazis, Jews, soldiers, merchant seamen, and refugees whom Britain feared might comprise Hitler’s rumoured “fifth column” of alien enemies residing within the Commonwealth. For the first time and in riveting detail, the author illuminates the conditions in one of Canada’s forgotten POW camps. Backed by interviews and meticulous archival research, Zimmermann fleshes out this rich history in an accessible, lively manner. The Little Third Reich on Lake Superior will captivate military and political historians as well as non-specialists interested in the history of POWs and internment in Canada.
Author : Arnold Krammer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313087156
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of War written by Arnold Krammer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to the current reshuffling of the rules. The issue of prisoners of war is of more immediate concern now than ever before and an examination of the history of their treatment and current status may well influence foreign policy. The fate of war prisoners through history has been cruel and haphazard. The lives of captives hung by a thread. Execution, enslavement, torture, or being held for ransom were equally likely. International agreements developed haltingly through the 19th and 20th centuries to culminate in the Geneva Accords of 1929. America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to the current reshuffling of the rules. Since biblical times, war captives have been considered property and counted as booty to be enslaved or killed. Americans were interested in generals and weapons and battles, but not the fate of prisoners of war. The Second World War, when 90,000 Americans fell into enemy hands, began to change that. Concern for our POWs in Germany and Japan, and close contact with enemy camps in America began to change our attitudes. However, it was the Vietnam War, media-driven and polarizing, that caused the American public to truly reevaluate the plight of its sons and brothers, heroic and clearly loyal, as they fell into the hands of an inscrutable and apparently unyielding distant enemy. More recently, during the first Gulf War of 1991 and the current War on Terrorism, the issue of prisoners of war has moved to center stage, involving the clash of ideologies, politics, and expediency. Since 9/11, the rights and safety of prisoners of war caught up in the War on Terror have been debated in Congress and adjudicated on by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales whose conclusions were protested by numerous organizations. The issue of prisoners of war is of more immediate concern now than ever before, and an examination of the history of their treatment and current status may well influence foreign policy.
Author : Barbara Schmitter Heisler
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476602115
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book From German Prisoner of War to American Citizen written by Barbara Schmitter Heisler and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-11-29 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many German immigrants to the United States over the years, one group is unusual: former prisoners of war who had spent between one and three years on American soil and who returned voluntarily as immigrants after the war. Drawing on archival sources and in-depth interviews with 35 former prisoners who made the return, the book outlines the conditions that defined their unusual experiences and traces their journeys from captive enemies to American citizens. Although the respondents came from different backgrounds, and arrived in America at different times between 1943 and 1945, their experiences as prisoners of war not only left an indelible impression, they also provided them with opportunities and resources that helped them leave Germany behind and return to the place "where we had the good life."
