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Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

Tracing Your Prisoner of War Ancestors: The First World War

by SarahPaterson (Author)

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    Paperback 2012

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Synopsis

The experience of civilian internees and British prisoners of war in German and Turkish hands during the First World War is one of the least well-known - and least researched - aspects of the history of the conflict. The same applies to prisoners of war and internees held in the UK. Yet, as Sarah Paterson shows in this authoritative handbook, a wide-range of detailed and revealing information is available if you know where to look for it.Briefly she outlines the course of the campaigns in which British servicemen were captured, and she describes how they were treated and the conditions they endured. She locates the camps they were taken to and explains how they were run. She also shows how this emotive and neglected subject can be researched - how archives and records can be used to track down individual prisoners and uncover something of the lives they led in captivity.Her work will be an essential introduction for readers who are keen to get an insight into the experience of a POW or an internee during the First World War, and it will be an invaluable guide for anyone who is trying to trace an ancestor who was captured.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 240
 Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Published: 19 Jul 2012
ISBN 10: 1848845014
ISBN 13: 9781848845015

Media Reviews
Published in July 2012 by Pen & Sword Books in association with IWM. An invaluable guide for anyone trying to trace an ancestor who was a POW or internet in the First World War. - Despatched This invaluable work should be at the side of anyone interested in finding out more about family members who were prisoners of war. Published in conjunction with the Imperial War Museum, the book is authoritative and provides a wealth of information including lists of the various camps at home and abroad. The book is aimed at those with little knowledge of the subject, but is certainly one that everyone will find useful. - Great War Magazine As the centenary of the outbreak of World War 1 approaches, Family Tree author Simon Fowler has authored this timely guide, showing you key resources at The National Archives and regimental museums and the latest military records available online. The easy-to-read chapters and practical tips are studded with case studies, making it very accessible and hugely useful - Family Tree
Author Bio
Sarah Paterson has a long-standing interest in the history of prisoners of war. Through her work in the library at Imperial War Museums London, she has extended her knowledge of the subject by dealing with the growing number of requests for help in researching the lives of individual prisoners. She is familiar with the many archive sources that can be consulted, and has used them in order to compile the case studies in her book.