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University of Oklahoma Press

ISBN-10

0806148446

ISBN-13

9780806148441

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208731974

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Number of Pages

396 Pages

Publication Name

Generous and Merciful Enemy : Life for German Prisoners of War During the American Revolution

Language

English

Subject

Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Europe / Germany, Sociology / General, Military / General, Europe / Great Britain / General

Publication Year

2015

Type

Textbook

Author

Daniel Krebs

Subject Area

Political Science, Social Science, History

Series

Campaigns and Commanders Ser.

Format

Trade Paperback

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0.9 in

Item Weight

20 Oz

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9 in

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6 in

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"Daniel Krebs offers a wealth of new material and interpretation in this study of the experiences of lower-ranking German officers and enlisted men captured and made POWs by the Americans during the Revolutionary War. This is an important contribution to Revolutionary War, military history, and prisoner-of-war studies."? Lawrence E. Babits , author of A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, "Krebs's scholarship is thorough and admirable. His research--conducted among German sources often difficult to access--and conclusions not only illuminate his immediate subject but are significant for our understanding of the broader German role in the War for Independence." -- J. A. Houlding , author of Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715-1795, "Daniel Krebs offers a wealth of new material and interpretation in this study of the experiences of lower-ranking German officers and enlisted men captured and made POWs by the Americans during the Revolutionary War. This is an important contribution to Revolutionary War, military history, and prisoner-of-war studies." -- Lawrence E. Babits , author of A Devil of a Whipping: The Battle of Cowpens, "This engaging, richly detailed study is a significant contribution. Avoiding commonplace views, Krebs examines anew the social background of German recruits, their motivations, and recruiting practices, as well as surrender rituals and the policies and practices affecting prisoners of war." -- John Resch , author of Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic, "This engaging, richly detailed study is a significant contribution. Avoiding commonplace views, Krebs examines anew the social background of German recruits, their motivations, and recruiting practices, as well as surrender rituals and the policies and practices affecting prisoners of war."?John Resch, author of Suffering Soldiers: Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic, Krebs's scholarship is thorough and admirable. His research—conducted among German sources often difficult to access—and conclusions not only illuminate his immediate subject but are significant for our understanding of the broader German role in the War for Independence."?J. A. Houlding, author of Fit for Service: The Training of the British Army, 1715--1795

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973.371

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Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war., Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers' letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners' responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a "generous and merciful enemy" to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war.

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