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Beyond Surrender: Australian prisoners of war in the twentieth century
Beaumont, Joan, Grant, Lachlan, Pegram, Aaron
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Paperback. Num Pages: 294 pages, Black & white throughout. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 3JJ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 525.
Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian 'behind-the-wire' experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality. Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitudes of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their ... Read more
Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian 'behind-the-wire' experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality. Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitudes of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Melbourne University Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Melbourne, Australia
ISBN
9780522866209
SKU
V9780522866209
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Ref
99-50
About Beaumont, Joan, Grant, Lachlan, Pegram, Aaron
Joan Beaumont is the author of Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War, joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Australian History and the 2014 NSW Premier’s Award for Australian History. She has also published on the Thai–Burma railway, and in 2011–13 researched the Hellfire Pass commemorative website for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Lachlan Grant is ... Read more
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