Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War Posters After the war ended

After the war ended

But the British Army was krelatively small and the First World War required a rapid expansion of the ranks

Eddie Rickenbacker

by Alice Kessler-Harris

Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War Posters After the war endedDescription by Heather Jones Paperback In this groundbreaking new study, Heather Jones provides the first in depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalized captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of war and led to new forms of forced prisoner labour and reprisals, which fuelled wartime propaganda that was often