Beyond Surrender
Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century
$52.99
- Paperback
294 pages
- Release Date
1 June 2015
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522866209 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0522866204 |
| Author: | Lachlan Grant, Joan Beaumont, Aaron Pegram |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | Melbourne University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 294 |
| Release Date: | 1 June 2015 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
Lachlan Grant
Joan Beaumont is the author of Broken Nation- Australians andthe Great War, joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister’s Award for Australian History and the 2014 NSW Premier’s Award for Australian History. She has published also on the Thai-Burma railway,and in 2011-13 researched the Hellfire Pass commemorative web site for the Department of Veterans Affairs.Lachlan Grant is a historian in the Military History Sectionof the Australian War Memorial. He has published widely on the Australian experiences of the World War II and the Australian prisoner of war experience. He recently authored Australian soldiers in Asia-Pacific in World War II (NewSouth, 2014).Aaron Pegram is a historian in the Military History Section at the Australian War Memorial. He is the Memorial’s tour leader and historical guide for the Memorial’s Western Front battlefield tours, and is currently completing a PhD thesis on Australian prisoners in Germany in the First World War at the Australian National University.
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