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Book SynopsisThe Second World War between the Axis and Allied powers saw over 20 million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. Prisoners of War uses a series of case studies to illuminate the personal and collective histories of those who experienced captivity in Eastern and Western Europe during the war and their repatriation and reintegration afterwards.
Table of Contents1: Introduction 2: The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939-1940: Portents for the Future 3: Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands 4: Scandinavia and the Low Countrie 5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands 6: The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939-1945 7: Enforced Diaspora: Italian Prisoners of War during the Second World War 8: War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941-1942 9: Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942-1945 10: Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War - Partisan War - Civil War 11: Jewish Prisoners of War: Captives of the Racial State 12: Black and Coloured Prisoners of War in Axis Hands 13: Women as Prisoners of War 14: Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers 15: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945-1948 16: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands 17: Conclusions
