The stigma of surrender : German prisoners, British captors, and manhood in the Great War and beyond /
Feltman, Brian K.
The stigma of surrender : German prisoners, British captors, and manhood in the Great War and beyond / Brian K. Feltman. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Between victory and death -- In British hands : Anglo-German encounters -- Separation : the psychological struggles of captivity -- Redemptive manhood : organizing a new theater of war -- Prisoners of peace : the postwar captivity experience -- National Socialism as redemption? : former prisoners in interwar Germany -- Conclusion.
"Approximately nine million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914-1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of World War I. Focusing on the experiences of the more than 132,000 German military prisoners held in the United Kingdom, military historian Brian Feltman explores the crucial importance of emasculation to military captivity"--
9781469623160
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war--History--Germany--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--Great Britain--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Psychological aspects.
Electronic Books.
D627 / .S754 2014
The stigma of surrender : German prisoners, British captors, and manhood in the Great War and beyond / Brian K. Feltman. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction -- Between victory and death -- In British hands : Anglo-German encounters -- Separation : the psychological struggles of captivity -- Redemptive manhood : organizing a new theater of war -- Prisoners of peace : the postwar captivity experience -- National Socialism as redemption? : former prisoners in interwar Germany -- Conclusion.
"Approximately nine million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914-1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of World War I. Focusing on the experiences of the more than 132,000 German military prisoners held in the United Kingdom, military historian Brian Feltman explores the crucial importance of emasculation to military captivity"--
9781469623160
World War, 1914-1918--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war--History--Germany--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--Great Britain--20th century.
World War, 1914-1918--Psychological aspects.
Electronic Books.
D627 / .S754 2014