Hostname: page-component-89b8bd64d-j4x9h Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-05-07T13:49:22.541Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

‘More Prussian than the Prussian’? Battlefield Prisoner Killing by British and Canadian Forces on the Western Front, 1914–1918 - RETRACTION

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2025

Alex J. Kay Open the ORCID record for Alex J. Kay [Opens in a new window]
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Information

Type
Retraction
Information
Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 3 , December 2025 , pp. e29
Check for updates
Creative Commons
Creative Common License - CCCreative Common License - BYCreative Common License - NCCreative Common License - ND
This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided that no alterations are made and the original article is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained prior to any commercial use and/or adaptation of the article.
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Royal Historical Society.

The editors of Transactions are retracting the above article as, following publication, it was brought to the editors’ attention that passages of the article bore close similarities to Brian K. Feltman, ‘Tolerance as a Crime? The British Treatment of German Prisoners of War on the Western Front, 1914–1918ʹ, War in History 17, no. 4 (2010): 435–58.

Following a detailed review, the editors, together with three independent and experienced journal editors, identified passages of the article which followed this source too closely in argument, content and style, without sufficient acknowledgement/reference.

At the time of its submission to Transactions, the article was submitted to another journal, contrary to the declaration made by the author at the time of submission.

The author, Alex J. Kay, strongly disagrees with this decision.

References

Kay, Alex J., ‘More Prussian than the Prussian’? Battlefield Prisoner Killing by British and Canadian Forces on the Western Front, 1914–1918. Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. Published online 2025:1–27. doi:10.1017/S0080440125000015CrossRefGoogle Scholar