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Cover -- Prisoners Of War: Europe: 1939-1956 -- Copyright -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Maps -- 1: Introduction -- Prisoners Of War And The Historians -- Prisoners Of War: Europe 1939-1956 -- Prelude: Protections For Prisoners Of War Before 1939 -- Part I: Captivity In Eastern And Western Europe -- 2: The Polish Campaign And The Winter War 1939-1940: Portents For The Future -- The Polish Armed Forces In German Captivity -- The Economic Exploitation Of Polish Prisoners Of War -- Polish Prisoners Under Soviet Occupation -- The Fate Of The Polish Officers -- After Barbarossa The Winter War -- 3: Defeat And Internment: The French Army In German Hands -- War And Defeat-the First Months -- French Prisoners In Germany -- The Vichy Regime And The Prisoners -- Prisoners And Their Families -- Escape, Evasion, And Punishment -- Wartime Repatriation -- 4: Scandinavia And The Low Countries -- The Neutral States: Denmark And Norway -- The Netherlands -- Belgium -- The Belgian Prisoner Of War Regime -- Life In Captivity -- 5: Conventional Captivity: Western Allied Forces In Axis Hands -- The First British Prisoners: Captivity In Germany The Creation Of Government Agencies And The Problems Of Democratic Accountability -- The Limits Of The Convention -- British Prisoners Of The Italians -- Everyday Life In Italian Camps -- Prisoner Exchanges -- Escape And Evasion -- 6: The Western Allies And Their German Prisoners 1939-1945 -- British And American Policy -- The 'fur Trappers': The Germans In Canada -- The Impact Of Shackling -- Prisoners As An Economic Resource -- Screening, Segregation, And Wartime Re-education -- Escape -- 7: Enforced Diaspora: The Fate Of Italian Prisoners Of War During The Second World War Italian Prisoners Of The British Empire -- Captives Of The United States And The 50:50 Agreement -- Ally To Enemy: From Comrades To Military Internees -- Italians In Soviet Hands -- Diaspora -- 8: War Of Annihilation: Russian Prisoners Of War On The Eastern Front 1941-194