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Author : William Manningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781905336043
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Wartime Log for British Prisoners written by William Manningham and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clare Makepeace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107145872
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Captives of War written by Clare Makepeace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture-- Imprisoned servicemen -- Bonds between men -- Ties with home -- Going "round the bend"--Liberation -- Resettling -- Conclusion
Author : William Manningham
Publisher : Melrose Press
ISBN 13 : 1905226047
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Wartime Log for British Prisoners written by William Manningham and published by Melrose Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the capture and imprisonment of William Manningham, a Britsh Merchant Seaman during the Second World War. It details his capture by the German Raider Vir, the journey to Germany and life in the Milag Nord Prisoner of War camp. There are images from Milag Nord, including photographs, camp money and records of Red Cross Parcels.
Author : Art Beltrone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Wartime Log written by Art Beltrone and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts and artwork from log books belonging to Americans in German prison camps
Author : Clare Makepeace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108509568
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Captives of War written by Clare Makepeace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pioneering history of the experience of captivity of British prisoners of war (POWs) in Europe during the Second World War, focussing on how they coped and came to terms with wartime imprisonment. Clare Makepeace reveals the ways in which POWs psychologically responded to surrender, the camaraderie and individualism that dominated life in the camps, and how, in their imagination, they constantly breached the barbed wire perimeter to be with their loved ones at home. Through the diaries, letters and log books written by seventy-five POWs, along with psychiatric research and reports, she explores the mental strains that tore through POWs' minds and the challenges that they faced upon homecoming. The book tells the story of wartime imprisonment through the love, fears, fantasies, loneliness, frustration and guilt that these men felt, shedding new light on what the experience of captivity meant for these men both during the war and after their liberation.
Author : Francis Abell
Publisher : London Oxford University Press 1914.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815 written by Francis Abell and published by London Oxford University Press 1914.. This book was released on 1914 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter William Sooby
Publisher : Writers Republic LLC
ISBN 13 : 1646201094
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (462 download)
Download or read book A WAR TIME LOG: DIARY OF A PRISONER OF WAR written by Peter William Sooby and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During WWII, my father was a soldier in a reconnaissance unit. During a mission in Cologne, Germany, he was captured by the German Army, and held as a Prisoner Of War. He was not only held in terrible conditions, but also made to march hundreds of miles between various camps. Through all this, he managed to keep hidden a diary of his experiences during this time. Should the diary have been found, it would have cost him his life. Still, he took that chance. His diary is a dated summary of all that he went through during his capture. In the diary, he made drawings of his surroundings and maps of both where he was captured and where he was marched across Europe. These were all done from memory. He also kept pictures and telegrams that he had collected during this time. The war took a heavy toll on him, both physically and mentally. Already a small man, he left imprisonment at only 80 pounds. He struggled with his health for the remainder of his life. Although, he never really talked about the war, we knew the atrocities he had witnessed had affected him greatly. Mom said he endured night sweats frequently and nightmares for years after. Despite the challenges from his past and continually failing health, my father pursued his passions and loved his family greatly until the time of his death. We lost my Father due to health complications resulting from the war in 1988, at the age of only 72. Our family lost a great man, father, and grandfather. His memory lives on in us today.
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ISBN 13 : 9781913297183
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (971 download)
Download or read book A Wartime Log written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lewis-Stempel
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297869256
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The War Behind the Wire written by John Lewis-Stempel and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy. On capture, British officers and men were routinely told by the Germans 'For you the war is over'. Nothing could be further from the truth. British Prisoners of War merely exchanged one barbed-wire battleground for another. In the camps the war was eternal. There was the war against the German military, fought with everything from taunting humour to outright sabotage, with a literal spanner put in the works of the factories and salt mines prisoners were forced to slave in. British PoWs also fought a valiant war against the conditions in which they were mired. They battled starvation, disease, Prussian cruelties, boredom, and their own inner demons. And, of course, they escaped. Then escaped again. No less than 29 officers at Holzminden camp in 1918 burrowed their way out via a tunnel (dug with a chisel and trowel) in the Great Escape of the Great War. It was war with heart-breaking consequences: more than 12,000 PoWs died, many of them murdered, to be buried in shallow unmarked graves. Using contemporary records - from prisoners' diaries to letters home to poetry - John Lewis-Stempel reveals the death, life and, above all, the glory of Britain's warriors behind the wire. For it was in the PoW camps, far from the blasted trenches, that the true spirit of the Tommy was exemplified.
Author : Tighe Hopkins
Publisher : London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, limited [1914]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of War written by Tighe Hopkins and published by London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, limited [1914]. This book was released on 1914 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War Regarding the Conditions Obtaining at Wittenberg Camp During the Typhus Epidemic of 1915 written by Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Report by the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War Regarding the Conditions Obtaining at Wittenberg Camp Duing the Typhus Epidemic of 1915 written by Great Britain. Government Committee on Treatment by the Enemy of British Prisoners of War and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oliver Wilkinson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781108203494
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)
Download or read book British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany written by Oliver Wilkinson and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War and incarcerated as prisoners of war (POWs). In this original investigation into their experiences of captivity, Wilkinson uses official and private British source material to explore how these servicemen were challenged by, and responded to, their wartime fate. Examining the psychological anguish associated with captivity, and physical trials, such as the controlling camp spaces; harsh routines and regimes; the lack of material necessities; and, for many, forced labour demands, he asks if, how and with what effects British POWs were able to respond to such challenges. The culmination of this research reveals a range of coping strategies embracing resistance; leadership and organisation; networks of support; and links with 'home worlds'. British Prisoners of War offers an original insight into First World War captivity, the German POW camps, and the mentalities and perceptions of the British servicemen held within.
Author : Michael Foley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781554791
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the British written by Michael Foley and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of what has been written about the treatment of prisoners of war held by the British in various conflicts point to the belief that they have often been treated in a more caring and compassionate way than the prisoners of other countries. This was seen as especially true in the First World War as to how British prisoners were treated. This would seem to point out that Germans held in Britain were treated leniently while there were claims of British prisoners being mistreated by the Germans. Was the British sense of fair play present in the prison camps and did this sense of fair play include the press and public who often called for harsher treatment of the Germans in captivity. Were those seen as enemy aliens living in Britain given similar fair treatment? Were they sent to internment camps because they were a threat to the country or for their own protection to save them from the British public intent on inflicting violence on them. This book will examine the truth of these views while also looking at the number of camps set up in the country and the public and press perception of the men held here.
Author : Abell Francis
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781314274356
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (743 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of War in Britain 1756 to 1815; a Record of Their Lives, Their Romance and Their Sufferings written by Abell Francis and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Margalit Fox
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1984853864
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book The Confidence Men written by Margalit Fox and published by Random House. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Great Escape for the Great War: the astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time. FINALIST FOR THE EDGAR® AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR • “Fox unspools Jones and Hill’s delightfully elaborate scheme in nail-biting episodes that advance like a narrative Rube Goldberg machine.”—The New York Times Book Review Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around, and one day an Ottoman official approaches Jones with a query: Could Jones contact the spirit world to find a vast treasure rumored to be buried nearby? Jones, a trained lawyer, and Hill, a brilliant magician, use the Ouija board—and their keen understanding of the psychology of deception—to build a trap for their captors that will ultimately lead them to freedom. A gripping nonfiction thriller, The Confidence Men is the story of one of the only known con games played for a good cause—and of a profound but unlikely friendship. Had it not been for “the Great War,” Jones, the Oxford-educated son of a British lord, and Hill, a mechanic on an Australian sheep ranch, would never have met. But in pain, loneliness, hunger, and isolation, they formed a powerful emotional and intellectual alliance that saved both of their lives. Margalit Fox brings her “nose for interesting facts, the ability to construct a taut narrative arc, and a Dickens-level gift for concisely conveying personality” (Kathryn Schulz, New York) to this tale of psychological strategy that is rife with cunning, danger, and moments of high farce that rival anything in Catch-22.
Author : Julie Peakman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786722992
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Hitler's Island War written by Julie Peakman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Highly Commended by the British Records Association for the 2019 Janette Harley Prize* In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the most pivotal battle of the Dodecanese campaign as the British tried, in vain, to retain control of the island. Over the course of two short months - from 15 September 1943 to 17 November 1943 - almost 1500 men lost their lives and hundreds more ended up in Prisoner-of-War camps. In this book, Julie Peakman, a modern-day resident of Leros, brings to life the story of the men caught up in the battle based on first-hand interviews and written accounts including diaries, letters and journals. She tells of the preparations of the soldiers leading up to the battle, the desperate hand-to-hand fighting, and the suffering endured from continual bombings. She also shows the extent of the men's despair at the allied surrender, the many subsequent daring escapes as well as the terrible years of incarceration for those who were captured and imprisoned. Many of the heart-rending accounts of the battle are told here for the first time, providing a unique eyewitness take on this forgotten corner of World War II.
