Beyond Surrender
Australian prisoners of war in the twentieth century
Joan Beaumont ; Lachlan Grant ; Aaron Pegram
- Over
- the
- twentieth
- century
- 35,000
- Australians
- suffered
- as
- prisoners
- of
- war
- in
- conflicts
- ranging
- from
- World
- War
- I
- to
- Korea.
- What
- was
- the
- reality
- of
- their
- captivity?
- Beyond
- Surrender
- presents
- for
- the
- first
- time
- the
- diversity
- of
- the
- Australian
- 'behind-the-wire'
- experience,
- dissecting
- fact
- from
- fiction
- and
- myth
- from
- reality.Beyond
- Surrender
- examines
- the
- impact
- that
- different
- types
- of
- camps,
- commandants
- and
- locations
- had
- on
- surrender,
- survival,
- prison
- life
- and
- the
- prospects
- of
- escape.
- It
- considers
- the
- attitudes
- of
- Australian
- governments
- to
- those
- who
- had
- surrendered,
- the
- work
- of
- relief
- agencies
- and
- the
- agony
- of
- families
- waiting
- at
- home
- for
- their
- husbands,
- brothers
- and
- fathers
- to
- be
- freed.Covering
- several
- conflicts
- and
- diverse
- sites
- of
- captivity,
- Beyond
- Surrender
- showcases
- new
- research
- from
- Kate
- Ariotti,
- Joan
- Beaumont,
- Lachlan
- Grant,
- Jeffrey
- Grey,
- Karl
- James,
- Jennifer
- Lawless,
- Peter
- Monteath,
- Melanie
- Oppenheimer,
- Aaron
- Pegram,
- Lucy
- Robertson,
- Seumas
- Spark
- and
- Christina Twomey.
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