Prisoners of War: From Gallipoli to Korea
Viking, $45 hb, 599 pp
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Prisoners of War: From Gallipoli to Korea by Patsy Adam-Smith
by Ian Buchanan •
The word history means many different things to different people. But generally speaking it entails an attempt by an author to explain, or make sense of, the past. That is, the historian gathers together the material, the evidence as it were, and from that draws a number of conclusions which we as readers are expected to believe. Prisoners of War, by Patsy Adam-Smith, encompassing three wars, from Gallipoli to Korea, is not that kind of history.
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