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The Journal of Military History, 2001
During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese cetainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of
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During World War II the Japanese were stereotyped in the European imagination as fanatical, cruel, almost inhuman - an image reflected in most books and films about prisoner of war in the Far East. While the Japanese cetainly treated those they captured badly, behaving far worse to Chinese and native captives than to Europeans, the conventional view of
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1991
‘The History of Europe in My Lifetime’1 — that is the great theme of paintings which since World War II have brought fame and controversy to Francis Bacon. Indeed, Bacon’s paintings as they confront the viewer with the ‘bestial floor’, as W. B. Yeats termed it, of our time, offer a Freudian understanding of the psychic forces which have shaped that ...
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‘The History of Europe in My Lifetime’1 — that is the great theme of paintings which since World War II have brought fame and controversy to Francis Bacon. Indeed, Bacon’s paintings as they confront the viewer with the ‘bestial floor’, as W. B. Yeats termed it, of our time, offer a Freudian understanding of the psychic forces which have shaped that ...
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2013
These verses written by Samuel Oakes, a Royal Marine imprisoned in France, provide a moving depiction of the prisoner of war’s plight. The intensification of conflict in this period and the consequent transformation in the conventions governing the exchange of prisoners of war meant that Oakes, alongside thousands of British soldiers, sailors and ...
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These verses written by Samuel Oakes, a Royal Marine imprisoned in France, provide a moving depiction of the prisoner of war’s plight. The intensification of conflict in this period and the consequent transformation in the conventions governing the exchange of prisoners of war meant that Oakes, alongside thousands of British soldiers, sailors and ...
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Telomere Length and Depression among Ex-Prisoners of War: The Role of Subjective Age.
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2018Yael Lahav +4 more
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British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany
, 2017O. Wilkinson
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The Employment of Prisoners of War
American Journal of International Law, 1963From the days when the Romans first came to appreciate the economic value of prisoners of war as a source of labor, and began to use them as slaves instead of killing them on the field of battle.
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