Prisoners of war and their captors in World War II / [edited by] Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prisoners of war in the Second World War: an overview / Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich -- Axis prisoners in Britain during the Second World War: a comparative survey / Bob Moore -- 'Blind bureaucracy': the British government and POWs in German captivity, 1939-45 / David Rolf -- Trouble with allies: Canada and the negotiation of prisoner of war exchanges / Jonathan F. Vance -- Captives of their countrymen: Free French and Vichy French POWs in Africa and the Middle East, 1940-3 / Martin Thomas -- Propaganda and political warfare: the Foreign Office, Italian POWs and the Free Italy Movement, 1940-3 / Kent Fedorowich -- Human vivisection: the intoxication of limitless power in wartime / Charles G. Roland -- Africans and African Americans in enemy hands / David Killingray -- Italian prisoners of war in Great Britain, 1943-6 / Lucio Sponza -- Captors and captives on the Burma-Thailand Railway / Sibylla Jane Flower -- From consideration to contempt: the changing nature of Japanese military and popular perceptions of prisoners of war through the ages / Ikuhiko Hata -- Protecting prisoners of war, 1939-95 / Joan Beaumont.