Barbed wire diplomacy : Britain, Germany, and the politics of prisoners of war, 1939-1945 / Neville Wylie.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010وصف:xii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199547593 (hbk)
- 0199547599 (hbk)
- 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
- D805.A2 W95 2010
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D805.A2 W95 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000146383 | ||
كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | D805.A2 W95 2010 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.2 | المتاح | 30010000146371 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [275]-297) and index.
Explaining coordination and cooperation in Anglo-German Relations, 1939-1945 -- Building the interwar POW regime -- POWs and Anglo-German relations, 1939-1941 -- The amateurs try their hand : the provision of relief parcels, 1940-1941 -- The POW regime, October 1941-December 1942 : from "cooperation" to "coordination" -- The shadow of the shackling crisis, 1943 -- The role of the Dominions in British POW policy -- The limits of attraction : British POW policy and the "Great Escape", 1944 -- Avoiding Götterdämmerung, 1945.5.
Barbed Wire Diplomacy examines how the United Kingdom government went about protecting the interests, lives and well-being of its prisoners of war (POWs) in Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945. The comparatively good treatment of British prisoners in Germany has largely been explained by historians in terms of rational self-interest, reciprocity, and influence of Nazi racism, which accorded Anglo-Saxon servicemen a higher status than other categories of POWs. By contrast, Neville Wylie offers a more nuanced picture of Anglo-German relations and the politics of prisoners of war. Drawing on British, German, United States and Swiss sources, he argues that German benevolence towards British POWs stemmed from London's success in working through neutral intermediaries, notably its protecting power (the United States and Switzerland) and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to promote German compliance with the 1929 Geneva convention, and building and sustaining a relationship with the German government that was capable of withstanding the corrosive effects of five years of warfare. Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned in the pursuit of political, strategic and ideological goals, in this important area of Anglo-German relations, customary international norms were both resilient and effective.