| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.1 | The History Cooperative

Alon Rachamimov. POWs and the Great War: Captivity on the Eastern Front. (Legacy of the Great War.) New York: Berg. 2002. Pp. xii, 259. Cloth $68.00, paper $22.50.
Captivity was the most common experience of the Great War shared by approximately 8.5 million combatants. Despite this fact, however, internment has received only a marginal place in the collective memory of the war. This is especially the case for the Eastern Front, which for a long time was under the lee of scholarly interest compared with the countless studies focusing on the Western Front. The imbalance has changed at least gradually since 1989. The dissolution of the Soviet Union refreshed allegedly lost memories and made hitherto closed archives accessible to historical research. It is the double merit of Alon Rachamimov to have turned the view on the history of captivity in Eastern Europe.	1
Rachamimov's focus is on the Austro-Hungarian Army, and he hardly touches on the situation of POWs from other belligerent states. The number of Austro-Hungarian POWs amounted to 2.8 million. This figure is significantly higher than those for Britain, France, or Germany. Rachamimov aims, first, at filling a considerable empirical gap. Second, he is trying to illuminate broader issues such as the formation and transformation of collective identities and loyalties, the writing of history "from below," and the legacy of World War I for the development of international law.	. . .

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