Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer history. The turning point in this history occurred during the First World War when, in the interests of security in a situation of total...Loe edasi...
This is a comparative study of the experiences of the Western civilians interned by the Japanese in mixed family camps and sexually segregated camps in the Far East....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Sep-2012, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199656028)
The first academic study to examine in detail exactly what happened to the major groups of British military and civilian prisoners held in different locations at various junctures between during the korean War. Tests the common popular assumption th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Dec-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199572885)
A study of the productions of classical tragedies staged by political prisoners of the Greek Civil War, focusing on the interpretation the detainees gave to their productions and the rationale behind specific readings. The book includes the text of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Jan-2010, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199578962)
This book looks at why international law continues to make the legal distinction between persons who participate in an international or an internal armed conflict and, drawing on considerable legal precedent, legal theory, and the situation in Guant...Loe edasi...
Building on observations, documentary analysis and over seventy interviews with both torture victims and transitional justice workers this book explores how torture was used, suffered and resisted in Timor-Leste....Loe edasi...
Using archival, oral and literary sources, Blackburn and Hack, along with an impressive team of international contributors, rectify the obscured picture of the Japanese captive by bringing together, for the first time, a collection of essays coverin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Sep-2006, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780199203079)
Drawing on first-hand accounts by many British and Commonwealth ex-POWs, this book aims to go beyond the popular mythology to present a portrait of what it was like to be a Kriegie. Featuring the voices of the men themselves, it explores both the...Loe edasi...
There were theatres in many Soviet concentration camps. What were they like? Can we regard them as an artistic phenomenon? Do they constitute a distinct unity? This account provides answers to these questions as well as precise dates and names of th...Loe edasi...
The first comprehensive study of Regulation 18B (and its precursor in the First World War, Regulation 14B) under which 2000 British Citizens were detained without charge, trial, or set term....Loe edasi...
Reproducing actual Soviet documents, this work examines what prison and labour camp files reveal of the fate of the poet Osip Mandelstam and the history of the Yiddish writer Pinhas Kahanovich (Der Nister). It also provides a guide to the analysis o...Loe edasi...
