Beyond surrender : Australian prisoners of war in the Twentieth Century / [edited by] Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram. Beyond surrender : Australian prisoners of war in the 20th Century

Collection type	Library
Author	Beaumont, Joan, editor.; Grant, Lachlan, editor.; Pegram, Aaron, editor.;
Call Number	355.1296 B573
Document type	Monograph
Year	2015.
Pagination	xvi, 294 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Publisher	Melbourne University Press,
Note	ANALYTIC. Includes bibliographical references and index. Over the twentieth century 35,000 Australians suffered as prisoners of war in conflicts ranging from World War I to Korea. What was the reality of their captivity? Beyond Surrender presents for the first time the diversity of the Australian 'behind-the-wire' experience, dissecting fact from fiction and myth from reality. Beyond Surrender examines the impact that different types of camps, commandants and locations had on surrender, survival, prison life and the prospects of escape. It considers the attitud es of Australian governments to those who had surrendered, the work of relief agencies and the agony of families waiting at home for their husbands, brothers and fathers to be freed. Covering several conflicts and diverse sites of captivity, Beyond Surren der showcases new research from Kate Ariotti, Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant, Jeffrey Grey, Karl James, Jennifer Lawless, Peter Monteath, Melanie Oppenheimer, Aaron Pegram, Lucy Robertson, Seumas Spark and Christina Twomey.
Place made	Carlton, Vic :

Abstract

1 Remembering and rethinking captivity / Joan Beaumont, Lachlan Grant and Aaron Pegram -- 2 Bold bids for freedom: Escape and Australian prisoners in Germany, 1916?18 / Aaron Pegram -- 3 Starvation, cruelty and neglect? Captivity in the Ottoman Empire, 19 15-18 / Jennifer Lawless -- 4 'At present everything is making us most anxious': Families of Australian prisoners in Turkey / Kate Ariotti -- 5 'Our Number One Priority': The Australian Red Cross and prisoners of war in the world wars / Melanie Oppenheime r -- 6 'I hope you are not too ashamed of me': Prisoners in the siege of Tobruk, 1941 / Karl James -- 7 Beyond the Colditz myth: Australian experiences of German captivity in World War II // Peter Monteath -- 8 Australian prisoners of war of Italy in Worl d War II: Public and private histories / Seumas Spark -- 9 Changi: Military discipline in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp, 1942?45 / Lucy Robertson -- 10 Officers and men: Rank and survival on the Thai-Burma railway / Joan Beaumont -- 11 Hellships, prison er transport, and unrestricted submarine warfare in World War II / Lachlan Grant -- 12 Breaking barriers: The diversity of prisoner-of-war camps in Japan and Australian contacts with Japanese civilians / Lachlan Grant -- 13 Remembering captivity in the Ko rean War / Jeffrey Grey, John MacKay and Ron Guthrie -- 14 Compensating prisoners of war of Japan in post-war Australia / Christina Twomey.