Captive Anzacs Australian Prisoners of War of the Ottomans during the First World War

Title: Captive Anzacs Australian Prisoners of War of the Ottomans during the First World War
Creator: Ariotti, Kate
Relation: The Australian Army history series
Relation: https://doi-org.ezproxy.newcastle.edu.au/10.1017/9781108182652
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource Type: book
Date: 2018
Description: View online in Cambridge Core. During the First World War, 198 Australians became prisoners of the Ottomans. Overshadowed by the grief and hardship that characterised the post-war period, and by the enduring myth of the fighting Anzac, these POWs have long been neglected in the national memory of the war. Captive Anzacs explores how the prisoners felt about their capture and how they dealt with the physical and psychological strain of imprisonment, as well as the legacy of their time as POWs. More broadly, it explores public perceptions of the prisoners, the effects of their captivity on their families, and how military, government and charitable organisations responded to the POWs both during and after the War. Intertwining rich detail from letters, diaries and other personal papers with official records, Kate Ariotti offers a comprehensive, nuanced account of this aspect of Australian war history.
Subject: Australians; Ottomans; prisoners of war (POW); Anzacs
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1451147
Identifier: uon:44105
Identifier: ISBN:9781108182652
Language: eng