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Book Synopsis POWs and the Great War by : Alon Rachamimov
Download or read book POWs and the Great War written by Alon Rachamimov and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 363 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.
Book Synopsis Essays on World War I by : Samuel R. Williamson
Download or read book Essays on World War I written by Samuel R. Williamson and published by East European Monographs. This book was released on 1983 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume comprises several studies by distinguished students of World War I focusing on the origins of the war and, particularly on problems related to war prisoners.
Book Synopsis China and the Great War by : Guoqi Xu
Download or read book China and the Great War written by Guoqi Xu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Book Synopsis Strangers on the Western Front by : Guoqi Xu
Download or read book Strangers on the Western Front written by Guoqi Xu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but from China. Xu Guoqi tells the remarkable story of the 140,000 Chinese men recruited for the Allied war effort. These laborers, mostly illiterate peasants from north China, came voluntarily and worked in Europe longer than any other group. Xu explores China’s reasons for sending its citizens to help the British and French (and, later, the Americans), the backgrounds of the workers, their difficult transit to Europe—across the Pacific, through Canada, and over the Atlantic—and their experiences with the Allied armies. It was the first encounter with Westerners for most of these Chinese peasants, and Xu also considers the story from their perspective: how they understood this distant war, the racism and suspicion they faced, and their attempts to hold on to their culture so far from home. In recovering this fascinating lost story, Xu highlights the Chinese contribution to World War I and illuminates the essential role these unsung laborers played in modern China’s search for a new national identity on the global stage.
Book Synopsis Pursuit of an '"unparalleled Opportunity" by : Kenneth Steuer
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.
