Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War Posters The story of the Harlem

The story of the Harlem Hellfighters is not simply one of victory in a war

by Matthias Strohn

early in World War I

by Alice Kessler-Harris

After the war ended

Violence Against Prisoners of War in the First World War Posters The story of the HarlemDescription by Heather Jones Paperback In this groundbreaking new study, Heather Jones provides the first in depth and comparative examination of violence against First World War prisoners. She shows how the war radicalized captivity treatment in Britain, France and Germany, dramatically undermined international law protecting prisoners of war and led to new forms of forced prisoner labour and reprisals, which fuelled wartime propaganda that was often