- Title
- 'At present everything is making us most anxious': families of Australian prisoners in Turkey
- Creator
- Ariotti, Kate
- Relation
- Beyond Surrender: Australian Prisoners of War in the Twentieth Century p. 57-74
- Relation
- https://www.mup.com.au/items/155882
- Publisher
- Melbourne University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Australian captives of the Turks have long been overlooked in histories of war. It has only been relatively recently that their experiences at the hands of a radically different enemy have commanded sustained scholarly attention. Rather than discussing the prisoners' stories of capture and captivity, this chapter focuses on the effects of their imprisonment on their families at home. It builds on the work of scholars regarding the effects of captivity on families of servicemen and women taken prisoner in World War II and in Vietnam by investigating the emotional impact of wartime imprisonment on the parents, siblings and partners of the Australian prisoners of the Turks. Drawing particularly on correspondence between families and the Australian Red Cross, it explores how Australians affected by captivity in Turkey felt about the peculiar absence of their relatives, and how they mitigated the strain it caused.
- Subject
- prisoners' families; imprisonment; prisoners of war; captivity
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1309467
- Identifier
- uon:21882
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780522866209
- Language
- eng
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