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By Clare Makepeace

it is a pioneering heritage of the event of captivity of British prisoners of battle in Europe in the course of the moment international warfare, focussing on how they coped and got here to phrases with wartime imprisonment. Clare Makepeace finds the ways that POWs psychologically spoke back to give up, the camaraderie and individualism that ruled existence within the camps, and the way, of their mind's eye, they always breached the barbed cord perimeter to be with their family at domestic. in the course of the diaries, letters and log books written by way of seventy-five POWs, besides psychiatric learn and studies, she explores the psychological traces that tore via POWs' minds and the demanding situations that they confronted upon homecoming. The ebook tells the tale of wartime imprisonment in the course of the love, fears, fantasies, loneliness, frustration and guilt that those males felt, laying off new mild on what the adventure of captivity intended for those males either through the battle and after their liberation.

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