Abstract
In the second world war perhaps as many as 35 million men and women spent some time in enemy hands as prisoners of war. Many of these were seriously maltreated, and millions died in captivity. However, academic historians, enticed though they often are by catastrophe, have left this field largely to popular historians, memoirists and film and television producers. The marginalization of prisoners of war in warfare their physical removal from the battlefield and their legal status as being hors de combat, or 'out of the fight' has therefore been perpetuated in the academic history of the second world
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