| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.1 | The History Cooperative

Arieh J. Kochavi. Confronting Captivity: Britain and the United States and Their POWs in Nazi Germany. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 2005. Pp. x, 382. $45.00.
In his impressively researched book, Arieh J. Kochavi argues that British and U.S. policy regarding their 300,000 prisoners of war held by Nazi Germany was based on a calculated risk. Rather than make the rescue of POWs a priority, the western Allies decided that the best they could do was concentrate on defeating enemy forces as quickly as possible. As they put the POW issue on the back burner, London and Washington agreed and disagreed over policy particulars, counted on Swiss inspectors and the International Committee of the Red Cross to monitor camp conditions, and did little to assuage the worries of the prisoners' families.	1
In the early years of the war, the Germans tended to honor the 1929 Geneva Convention regarding the treatment of POWs. The German High Command, which ran the camps, provided adequate accommodations, allowed the delivery of Red Cross parcels of food and medicines, and cooperated on the exchange of 10,000 British Commonwealth and 13,000 German prisoners who were seriously sick and wounded. When Berlin ordered the shackling of 4,000 POWs, mostly Canadians, in an attempt to compel the British to stop commando raids, the British did not back down. Both sides kept open the lines of communication.	. . .

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