Guarded neutrality : diplomacy and internment in the Netherlands during the First World War / / by Susanne Wolf.

Traditionally isolated from mainstream European affairs, in 1914 the Dutch had no major allegiances that bound them to any one side of the conflict. Geographically and economically caught between two of the major belligerents, Great Britain and Germany, the Netherlands was constantly vulnerable to a...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:History of warfare, v. 86
History of Warfare 86.
Physical Description:1 online resource (217 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • A Neutral Country
  • The Netherlands in World War One
  • The First Few Weeks: Applying the Rules in Practice
  • Administering Military Internment: The Camps
  • The Middle Years of the War; Consolidation
  • 1917: Deserters, Politics and Religion
  • Internment in a Neutral Country: The Arrival of the Prisoners of War
  • Going Home
  • Dutch Cabinet 1913–1919
  • Foreign Representatives in the Netherlands 1914–1918
  • List of Internment Camps
  • Further Reading
  • Bibliography
  • Index.