Barbed wire diplomacy Britain, Germany, and the politics of prisoners of war 1939-1945 /

This book examines how the UK government protected the lives, interests, and well-being of its POWs in Nazi Germany. The comparatively good treatment of British POWs in Germany has been explained in terms of self-interest. Wylie presents a more nuanced picture of Anglo-German relations and the polit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wylie, Neville, 1966-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war > Great Britain.
Prisoners of war > Germany.
Prisoners of war > Government policy > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > Germany.
Germany > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > 1936-1945.
Germany > Foreign relations > 1933-1945.
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Summary:This book examines how the UK government protected the lives, interests, and well-being of its POWs in Nazi Germany. The comparatively good treatment of British POWs in Germany has been explained in terms of self-interest. Wylie presents a more nuanced picture of Anglo-German relations and the politics of prisoners of war.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (xvi, 312 p.) : map.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191720581 (ebook) :

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