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Joint Winner of Fraenkel Prize for Contemporary History 2001, London. Winner of Talmon Prize, Israel, awarded by the Israeli Academy of Sciences. Although it was one of the most common experiences of combatants in World War I, captivity has recei ved only a marginal place in the collective memory of the Great War and has seemed unimportant compared with the experiences of soldiers on the Western Front. Yet this book, focusing on POWs on the Eastern Front, reveals a different picture of the Wa r and the human misery it produced. During four years of fighting, approximately 8.5 million soldier
World War, 1914-1918 --- Prisoners of war --- Prisoners and prisons, Russian. --- History --- Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.
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With expert scholars and great sensitivity, 'Out of Line, Out of Place' illuminates and analyzes how the proliferation of internment camps emerged as a biopolitical tool of governance. Although the internment camp developed as a technology of containment, control, and punishment in the latter part of the nineteenth century mainly in colonial settings, it became universal and global during the Great War.
World War, 1914-1918 --- Internment camps --- Concentration camps. --- Prisoners and prisons. --- History
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