POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front

by Alon Rachamimov

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1859735789
• ISBN13: 9781859735787
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Berg Publishers
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"