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Auteur(s) : Makepeace, Clare
Titre(s) : Captives of war [Texte imprimé] : British prisoners of war in Europe in the Second World War / Clare Makepeace
Publication : Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, copyright 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XV-289 p.) : illustrations ; 24 cm
Collection : Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Lien à la collection : Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 259-284. Index
"Signalman Andrew Makepeace, my grandfather, was taken prisoner, along with more than
10,000 other men in the 51st Highland Division, at St Valery-en-Caux on 12 June 1940.
It was often said in our household that a veteran's silence on the war was a direct
reflection of how much he had suffered. My parents regularly invoked this maxim to
explain why my grandfather rarely talked about his experiences. From a very early
age, I struggled to reconcile this: how could my kind, gentle, patient grandfather
have gone through things so dreadful they had rendered him mute when it came to discussing
these five years of his early adult life? Very occasionally, and unexpectedly, something
would break his silence. I remember wearing a pair of clogs one day: I was about twelve
years-old. He looked at them and then looked at me. 'Dreadful things' he said in a
distant voice. I watched his eyes fill with anguish over, what seemed to me, up until
that point, to be the most harmless of items."--Provided by publisher
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Captives of war, British POWs in Europe in the Second World
War
- Autre forme du titre : British prisoners of war in Europe in the Second World War
Sujet(s) : Guerre mondiale (1939-1945) -- Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands
Prisonniers de guerre britanniques -- Europe -- 1900-1945
Indice(s) Dewey :
940.547 2430922 (23e éd.) = Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Camps de prisonniers de guerre - Europe centrale Allemagne
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Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107145870 (hbk.). - ISBN 9781107145870. - ISBN 1107145872. - ISBN 9781108515528
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Notice n° :
FRBNF45533767
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Table des matières : Introduction ; Capture ; Imprisoned servicemen ; Bonds between men ; Ties with
home ; Going "round the bend" ; Liberation ; Resettling ; Conclusion.
