Prisoners of War

Bob Moore is Emeritus Professor of European History at the University of Sheffield. He has published extensively on the history of Western Europe in the mid twentieth century, including Victims and Survivors: the Nazi Persecution of the Jews in the Netherlands, 1940-1945 (1997); Resistance in Western Europe (2000); Refugees from Nazi Germany and the Liberal European States (with Frank Caestecker, 2009) and his most recent monograph, Survivors: Jewish Self-Help and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied Western Europe was published by Oxford University Press in 2010. He has recently completed the editing (with Johannes Houwink ten Cate) of De Geheime Dagboek van Arnold Douwes (2018) and its translation as The Secret Diary of Arnold Douwes (2019). His work on prisoners of war includes The British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War 1940-1947 (with Kent Fedorowich, 2003) as well as several journal articles.

The book is highly recommended both for readers who would like to enrich their existing knowledge of Second World War POWs by learning about less researched areas, as well as for lay readers who would like to delve into this vast subject for the first time.

• 1: Introduction 2: The Polish Campaign and the Winter War 1939-1940: Portents for the Future 3: Defeat and Internment: The French Army in German Hands 4: Scandinavia and the Low Countrie 5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces in Axis Hands 6: The Western Allies and their German Prisoners 1939-1945 7: Enforced Diaspora: Italian Prisoners of War during the Second World War 8: War of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners of War on the Eastern Front 1941-1942 9: Soviet Prisoners in German Captivity 1942-1945 10: Conflict in the Balkans: Conventional War - Partisan War - Civil War 11: Jewish Prisoners of War: Captives of the Racial State 12: Black and Coloured Prisoners of War in Axis Hands 13: Women as Prisoners of War 14: Liberation, Repatriation, Reintegration, Retribution: The Return Home of Allied Soldiers 15: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in the West, 1945-1948 16: Continuing Captivity: Axis Soldiers in Soviet Hands 17: Conclusions