| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.3

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Book Review

The Enemy among Us: POWs in Missouri during World War II. By David Fiedler. (St. Louis: Missouri Historical Society Press, 2003. xiv, 459 pp. $29.95, ISBN 1-883982-49-9.)
Prisoners of War and the German High Command: The British and American Experience. By Vasilis Vourkoutiotis. (New York: Palgrave, 2003. xii, 266 pp. $69.95, ISBN 1-4039-1169-X.)
The massive outpouring of studies on the Nazi and Fascist war machines has, in recent years, evoked a series of accounts aimed at deconstructing common images of enemy soldiers—in particular the career officers and the rank and file of the conventional branches of the enemy's military. The two books reviewed here belong to this revisionist category. They utilize the prisoner-of-war ( POW ) experience of both captives and wardens to produce a more humane and, perhaps, a more believable image of the enemy. In the process both books illustrate the inherent tension between history and memory and the dissonance between public and private war experiences.	. . .

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