Prisoners of war, prisoners of peace : captivity, homecoming, and memory in World War II / edited by Bob Moore & Barbara Hately-Broad.

Revisions of papers presented at a conference organized by the International Committee for the History of the Second World War in Hamburg in July, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-247) and index.

Overview / Pieter Lagrou -- The repatriation of prisoners of war once hostilities are over / Rüdiger Overmans -- British perceptions of Italian prisoners of war, 1940-7 / Bob Moore -- Hatred within limits / Jerzy Kochanowski -- Japanese deserters and prisoners of war in the Battle of Okinawa / Hirofumi Hayashi -- Re-educating the German prisoners of war / Andreas Hilger -- Anti-fascist propaganda among Italian prisoners of war in the USSR, 1941-6 / Maria Theresa Giusti -- The nucleus of a new German ideology? the re-education of German prisoners of war in the United States during World War II / Matthias Reiss -- Belated homecomings / Yoshikuni Igarashi -- The internment of returning Soviet prisoners of war after 1945 / Pavel Polian -- Coping in Britain and France / Barbara Hately-Broad -- After the Burma-Thailand railway / Mariska Heijmans-Van Bruggen -- Languages of memory / Svenja Goltermann -- Retaining integrity? sex, race and gender in narratives of western women detained by the Japanese in World War II / Christina Twomey -- Prisoners of war in Australian national memory / Joan Beaumont.