Trauma of Captivity
PoW Mental Heath
Published on 12. October 2023
192 pages
978-1-3990-1683-4 (ISBN)
Description
The Trauma of Captivity seeks to shed new light on a forgotten aspect of what it meant to be a prisoner of war: their homecoming. With primary source archive content and interviews with family members of prisoners of war from the Second World War, as well as the diary entries of a prisoner of war from the First World War, this book asks the question: what happened to prisoners of war when they returned home?Sons and daughters of returned prisoners of war share their harrowing stories of having a POW for a parent. The Trauma of Captivity also features a lengthy interview with modern-day prisoner of war John Peters, the RAF fast jet pilot who was captured when his Tornado plane crashed in the desert during the Gulf War.The Trauma of Captivity focuses on what help and support was made available to returning prisoners of war and how they fought to rediscover their roles in society.
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06/2023
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Julie Cook has been a journalist for over 20 years. After working in-house on top magazines such as Take a Break she became freelance and now writes regularly for titles such as the Daily Mail, The Sun, Telegraph, Bella, Red online and many more. The Titanic and the City of Widows it Left Behind is a book she has wanted to write for many years because her great-grandfather was a crew member who perished on board, leaving behind a wife and five children. Julie lives with her husband and two children in Hampshire.
Content
- Cover
- Book Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One Man strays onto battlefield
- Chapter Two The First World War: 'While of unsound mind.'
- Chapter Three Psychological Intervention
- Plates Section
- Chapter Four Prisoners of War in Germany - Second World War
- Chapter Five Japan and the Far East
- Chapter Six Coming home from Japan: Compensation and carrying on
- Chapter Seven Glorification versus Reality
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Back Cover
