An original investigation dedicated to the captivity experiences of British military servicemen captured by Germany in the First World War.

Oliver Wilkinson is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in History, Politics and War Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, having researched British captivity experiences in the First World War for a decade. His previous works include contributions to the edited collections War and Displacement in the Twentieth Century: Global Conflicts (2014) and Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War: Creativity behind Barbed Wire (2012), and to the Journal of War and Culture Studies.

Introduction; Part I. Behind the Wire: 1. Capture; 2. The camps; 3. Routine, work and discipline; 4. Necessities of life; Part II. Prisoner Responses: 5. Resistance; 6. Leadership and organisation; 7. Friends and feuds; 8. Linking with home; Conclusion: 9. Repatriation, futures and myths.