This book discusses the experience of nearly 100,000 French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War II. Raffael Scheck shows that th

Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.

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This new analysis of internment outside Europe helps us to understand the First World War as a truly global conflict.

This volume offers a fresh perspective on Africa's central role in the Allied victory in World War II. Its detailed case studies, from all parts of Africa, enab