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Prisoners of War and Military Honour, 1789–1918
Engelsk Hardback

Prisoners of War and Military Honour, 1789–1918

Engelsk Hardback

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Early in the modern period, prisoners of war with the rank of officer or equivalent had the right to petition for parole. By effectively pawning their personal honour, they were able to purchase freedom of movement and other privileges-in-captivity. Increasingly, other ranks and civilians claimed a right to parole too.Based on material from close to thirty Australian, British, Dutch, French, German, and Swiss archives, Jasper Heinzen investigates the role and implications of honour-based agreements between prisoners of war and their captors in western European warfare. Across a range of ego documents, ministerial memoranda, the minutes of Masonic lodges, and prisoners'' petitions, as well as a substantial body of published material, he demonstrates how captives, statesmen, and humanitarians understood honour in the ''long nineteenth century'', how they negotiated national differences, and whyparole d''honneurcontinued to matter as a code of conduct into the First World War. In so doing, the book demonstrates the dichotomy between ''good'' codes of conduct prevalent in the eighteenth century and the practices of modern warfare—perpetuated by a substantial amount of scholarship—to be a false one. Explaining the longevity of parole in this novel way raises important questions about the so-called ''military Enlightenment'', the excesses of the world wars, total war, and the practices and codes of modern warfare.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
368
ISBN-13:
9780192871169
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0192871161
Udg. Dato:
6 feb 2025
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
165mm
Højde:
241mm
Forlag:
Oxford University Press
Oplagsdato:
6 feb 2025
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