Surviving the Great War: Australian Prisoners of War on the Western

Author: Aaron Pegram (Australian War Memorial) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 284 Between 1916 and 1918, more than 3,800 men of the Australian Imperial Force were taken prisoner by German forces fighting on the Western Front. Australians captured in France and Belgium did not easily integrate into public narratives of Australia in the First World War and its commemorative rituals. Captivity was a story of surrender and inaction, at odds with the Anzac legend and a triumphant national memory. Soldiers...Read more