Overview
- Highlights the role of international organisations, neutral nations and other transnational actors in supporting civilian and military captives
- Chapters cover both the largest wars, such as the two World Wars, and lesser-known conflicts
- Shows how these international actors helped to shape policies and practices relating to captivity in wartime
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“The contribution of this book to the field of war captivity studies is much welcomed. Not only do the chapters discuss the well-known cases of the two world wars, but they also include other armed conflicts that are rarely explored by captivity historians. The book has the great merit of showing that captivity and internment policies during the twentieth century were deployed in different areas around the world ... .” (Jean-Michel Turcotte, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2024)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marcel Berni is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He specialises in the history of the Cold War. His dissertation on the treatment of communist captives during Vietnam's American War has won the André Corvisier Prize.
Tamara Cubito is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She recently completed her PhD on the treatment of enemy aliens in the British colonies during the First World War.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Captivity in War during the Twentieth Century
Book Subtitle: The Forgotten Diplomatic Role of Transnational Actors
Editors: Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65095-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65094-0Published: 28 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65097-1Published: 29 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65095-7Published: 27 August 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 182
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, History of Military, History, general, Modern History, Legal History