Captive Anzacs: Australian POWs of the Ottomans during the First World

Author: Kate Ariotti (University of Newcastle, New South Wales) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 238 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...Read more