Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of CaptivityBloomsbury Academic, 15 cze 1990 - 256 Military and civilian captivity practices by four major European powers and the United States during World War I are surveyed in this book. Speed argues that while the pressures of total war, as they emerged during the conflict, drove the belligerents to violate many of the norms of war, they attempted to behave in accordance with a liberal tradition of captivity which held that prisoners of war were merely men whom nobody had a right to harm. Aside from a few journal articles that deal with small aspects of the topic, there is no other scholarly work that focuses on captivity during the First World War. Speed makes extensive use of rarely cited American diplomatic records in order to offer a more objective view of camp conditions. A special feature is the depiction of American camps in France drawn from previously uncited War Department records. |
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The American Scheme | 15 |
Europe | 31 |
The GermanAmerican Diplomacy of Captivity | 43 |
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Prisoners, Diplomats, and the Great War: A Study in the Diplomacy of Captivity Richard Speed Podgląd niedostępny - 1990 |