World War I and World War II brought displacement to civilizations on an unprecedented scale. Displacements were geographical, cultural, and psychological; based on nationality, sex or age. They produced an astonishing range of human experience, recorded by the participants in different ways. This collection unites historians and literary scholars in exploring this displacement, drawing on a wealth of primary source materials and resources, including archives from across the world.

Introduction: The No Man's Land of Displacement Angela K. Smith and Sandra Barkhof Part 1: Military Displacement 1. Displacement and the Combat Soldier: Poetic Interpretations Angela K. Smith 2. The French Resister in the Maghreb: French North Africa and the Formation of the Forces Aériennes Françaises Libres, 1940-41 G.H. Bennett 3. The Other Side of the Poison Cloud: Canadian Soldiers as English Patients After the First Gas Attacks Martin Goodman 4. Diluting Displacement: Letters from Captivity Oliver Wilkinson 5. A "Positive" Displacement?: Italian PoW in World War Two Britain Marco Giudici 6. Exploitation of Displaced European Refugees and Axis Prisoners of War in Britain, 1939-49 J.M. Goodchild 7. A Period in Limbo: Placing People and Punctuation in E. E. Cummings's The Enormous Room. Hazel Hutchison Part 2: Civilian Displacement 8. Renegotiating the Yellow Peril: Cultural and Physical Displacement in the German Colony in China During the First World War Sandra Barkhof 9. "His Dearest Property": Women, Nation and Displacement in Storm Jameson's Cloudless May. Katherine Cooper 10. "Everything's in a Terrible Mess": Displacement in the Wartime Fictions of Elsa Triolet and Irene Nemirovsky Krista Cowman 11. "When Most Relief Workers Had Never Heard of Freud": UNRRA in the French Zone of Occupation in Germany, 1945-1947 Laure Humbert 12. Fading Childhood Memories of World War II Displacement: Appropriation, Non-Appropriation and Misappropriation Iris Guske and Niklas Guske 13. Prisoners of the Past?: German Refugee Associations Today Karl Cordell

Sandra Barkhof is a Lecturer at Plymouth University.

Angela K. Smith is an Associate Professor (Reader) at Plymouth University.