Dr. Bob Moore is Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield. He is also a co-author of British Empire and its Italian Prisoners of War, 1940-1947. Barbara Hately-Broad holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield and now works in Adult Education

• Overview--Pieter Lagrou, University of Brussels * The Repatriation of POWs at the End of Hostilities--Rudiger Overmans, University of FreiburgPrisoners and their Captors * British Perceptions of Italian Prisoners-of-War, 1940-1947--Bob Moore, University of Sheffield * Hatred within Limits: German Prisoners of War and Polish Society 1945-1950--Jerzy Kochanowski , GHI Warsaw * Japanese Deserters and Prisoners of War In the Battle of Okinawa--Hirofumi Hayashi, Kanto Gakuin University, YokohamaRe-Education * Re-Educating the German Prisoners of War: Aims, Methods, Results and Memory in East and West Germany--Andreas Hilger, University of Hamburg * Antifascist Propaganda Among Italian War Prisoners in the USSR: 1941-1946--Maria-Theresa Giusti, University of Bologna * The Nucleus of a New German Ideology? The Re-Education of German Prisoners of War in the United States During World War II--Matthias Reiss, University of HamburgHomecoming * Coping in Britain and France: a Comparison of Family Issues Affecting the Homecoming of Prisoners of War Following the Second World War--Barbara Hately-Broad, University of Huddersfield * The Unhomeliness of their Homeland: Japanese POWs in Siberia and their Return to Postwar Japan--Yoshikuni Igarashi, University of Nashville * After the Burma-Thailand Railway: The 'Homecoming' of Dutch Prisoners of War--Mariska Van Bruggen, NIOD Amsterdam * The Internment of Returning Soviet Prisoners of War after 1945--Pavel Polian, University of Kln and University of MoscowMemory * The Framing of Memory: The War Experience of German POWs in Psychiatric Records--Svenja Goltermann, University of Bremen * Retaining Integrity? Sex, Race and Gender in Narratives of Western Women Detained by the Japanese in World War II, Christina Twomey, University of Adelaide * Australian Prisoners of War in Australian National Memory--Joan Beaumont, University of Deakin

'Overall, Prisoners of War, Prisoners of Peace, is an important contribution to the international historiography of the Second World War and, indeed, of war itself.'Craig Barrett, Australian Journal of Politics and History