The British Empire and Its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Bob Moore and Kent Fedorowich. The British Empire and Its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947. (Studies in Military and Strategic History.) New York: Palgrave. 2002. Pp. xi, 329. $72.00. ISBN 0-333-73892-6.

During World War II British and imperial forces captured over half a million Italian soldiers, a tremendous military success and dilemma in one. Historians Moore and Fedorowich, who have collaborated previously (Prisoners of War and their Captors in World War II, [1996]), offer a comprehensive study of British policy toward the defeated Italians, a subject that has received ...

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