Beyond Surrender: Australian prisoners of war in the twentieth century
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Beyond Surrender: Australian prisoners of war in the twentieth century
By (Author) Lachlan Grant and Editors Joan Beaumont
Melbourne University Press
Academic Monographs
1st June 2015
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
355.1296
Physical Properties
Hardback
310
Width 138mm, Height 216mm, Spine 23mm
488g
Description
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 attitudes 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 Surrender 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.
Author Bio
Joan Beaumont is the author of Broken Nation: Australians and the Great War, joint winner of the 2014 Prime Ministers Award for Australian History and the 2014 NSW Premiers Award for Australian History. She has also published on the ThaiBurma railway, and in 201113 researched the Hellfire Pass commemorative website for the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Lachlan Grant is a historian in the Military History Section of the Australian War Memorial. He has published widely on the Australian experiences of World War II and the Australian prisoner-of-war experience. He recently authored Australian Soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II.
Aaron Pegram is a historian in the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial. He is the Memorials tour leader and historical guide for the Memorials Western Front battlefield tours, and is completing a PhD thesis on Australian prisoners in Germany during World War I.
