Neville Wylie
Biographic Data
| ID | 3980498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neville Wylie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neville |
| FAMILY NAME | Wylie |
| SIGNATURE | WYLIE N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2248-4694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The North Atlantic Triangle and Canadian ‘Humanitarian’ Policy in the Second World War
This article moves away from high politics and strategic policy to examine Canada’s ‘humanitarian’ foreign policy, with reference to Ottawa’s involvement in Allied relief operations on behalf of prisoners in Europe and the Far East during the Second World War. When war broke out in 1939, Canada was the only Dominion not to comply with London’s request that all communications with Washington be channelled through the Foreign Office. Instead, Ottaw…
Hidden presences
This article explores the role next-of-kin played in framing discussion over the treatment of military prisoners during the era of the two world wars. Prisoners’ next-of-kin came to assume an influential position during the First World War, and this was reflected in the 1929 POW Convention, which deliberately anticipated their involvement in shaping public debate and government policy in future wars. These assumptions proved faulty; the Second Wo…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
Red Cross Movement
The Impact of World War I on the Law Governing the Treatment of Prisoners of War and the Making of a Humanitarian Subject
This article evaluates the impact of World War I on the development of international humanitarian law (IHL) regarding the treatment of the prisoner of war (POW). In contrast to traditional scholarship, which overlooks the war’s significance on the jus in bello, we argue that in the area of POW law, the changes brought about by the war were significant and long-lasting and led to the creation of a POW convention in 1929 that set IHL onto a markedl…
The Korean War and the Post-war Prisoner of War Regime, 1945–1956
This paper examines the framework for the treatment of prisoners of war that emerged after 1945. It focuses on one of the key elements of the post-war prisoner of war (POW) regime, the role of neutral bodies – state authorities acting as ‘protecting powers’ or humanitarian agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross – in supervising the implementation of the 1949 POW convention. It examines the importance of neutral supervision …
Caught in the Middle
It is a reflection of the apparent dearth of scholarship on the history of neutrality in the First World War that this fine collection of essays—and the 2009 conference which gave rise to them—take as their point of departure a thesis developed nearly half a century ago. Nils Ørvik’s The Decline of Neutrality 1914–1941, published in 1953 and updated in 1971, has certainly weathered the test of time. Its central proposition—that the law-based neut…
Barbed Wire Diplomacy
"Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned in the pursuit of political, strategic, and ideological goals, in this important area of Anglo-German relations, cus…
Loot, Gold, and Tradition in the United Kingdom's Financial Warfare Strategy, 1939–1945
First paragraph: The Third Reich's gold sales during the Second World War came to public notice in the 1990s, owing to growing interest in the fate of personal assets - bank accounts, properties, paintings, and other works of art - stolen by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, which had remained beyond the reach of their rightful owners. The investigations then carried out, often officially sponsored, shed light on the murky world of internati…
The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War
1. Introduction: Politics and Strategy in the Clandestine War - new perspectives in the study of S.O.E. Neville Wylie 2. 'Of Historical Interest Only': The origins and vicissitudes of the SOE Archive Duncan Stuart 3. A glass half full - Some thoughts on the evolution of the study of the Special Operations Executive Mark Seaman 4. The 'Massingham' Mission and the Secret 'Special relationship': Cooperation and rivalry between the Anglo-American cla…
Prisoners of War in the Era of Total War
Prisoner of war relief and humanitarianism in Canadian external policy during the Second World War
British Smuggling Operations From Switzerland, 1940–1944
This article departs from traditional writing on British economic warfare against the Axis during the Second World War by highlighting the efforts made by the British government to evade German ‘counter-blockade’ measures and secure access to European sources of supply. It does so by examining British efforts to obtain Swiss industrial equipment and manufactures after June 1940, when German military success effectively severed normal communicatio…
European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War
An Amateur Learns his Job’? Special Operations Executive in Portugal, 1940–42
During the first years of its existence, Special Operations Executive looked to neutral Europe as an area in which it could deploy its limited resources against German interests with a reasonable chance of success. By early 1942, however, it was clear that neutral Europe had failed to live up to SOE's expectations. Most of SOE's plans had either been aborted or cancelled. This article examines SOE's work in Portugal between early 1941 and summer …
Problems of neutrality
Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.13 (1939–1940), edited by Jean‐François Bergier and André Jäggi (with the collaboration of Marc Perrenoud). Berne: Benteli Verlag, 1991. cvii + 1098 pp. 6 annexes. Sw.Fr.150. ISBN 3–7165–0725–3. Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.14 (1941–1943), edited by A…
Recent books
Aung San Suu Kyi Letters from Burma Penguin (1997), London, ISBN 0–140264035, £6.99 (pbk). Shimon Naveh In Pursuit of Military Excellence Frank Cass (1997), London, ISBN 0–7146–4727–6, £25.00 (hbk). David J. Whittaker United Nations in the Contemporary World Routledge (1997), London, ISBN 0–415–15317–4, £8.99 (pbk). Henrick Larsen Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis: France, Britain and Europe Routledge (1997), London, ISBN 0–415–15976–8, £24.9…
Marcel Pilet‐Golaz, David Kelly and Anglo‐Swiss relations in 1940
First paragraph: Switzerland's Foreign Minister and Federal President for 1940, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, has held centre-stage in the historical record of Switzerland's wartime experience. Moving to the Swiss Federal Political Department (foreign ministry) in March 1940, Pilet stamped his character on Swiss foreign relations and successfully steered his country through the testing war years before retiring from political life five years later in Decem…
Recent books
J. Ruane & J. Todd (1996), The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 0–521–56879‐X, £14.95 (pbk), or 0–521–65018–7 £45.00 (hbk) W. Kaiser (1996), Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration 1945–1963. Macmillan, London, ISBN: 0–333–64942–7, £40.00 (hbk) M. Kaufmann, (forthcoming), Europäische Integration und Demokratieprinzip. Nomos‐Verlag…
Life between the volcanoes.’ Switzerland during the Second World War
First paragraph: On the afternoon of 21 April 1941, Maria Guiness, wife of one of the leading figures in the thriving English ex-patriot community on the banks of Lake Geneva, composed a letter in which she described life in wartime Switzerland. Her correspondent knew Switzerland only too well. Sir George Warner had been Britain's minister in Berne from 1936 and had only returned to London to take up a temporary appointment in the foreign office …
The Impact of World War I on the Law Governing the Treatment of Prisoners of War and the Making of a Humanitarian Subject
This article evaluates the impact of World War I on the development of international humanitarian law (IHL) regarding the treatment of the prisoner of war (POW). In contrast to traditional scholarship, which overlooks the war’s significance on the jus in bello, we argue that in the area of POW law, the changes brought about by the war were significant and long-lasting and led to the creation of a POW convention in 1929 that set IHL onto a markedl…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War
The Korean War and the Post-war Prisoner of War Regime, 1945–1956
This paper examines the framework for the treatment of prisoners of war that emerged after 1945. It focuses on one of the key elements of the post-war prisoner of war (POW) regime, the role of neutral bodies – state authorities acting as ‘protecting powers’ or humanitarian agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross – in supervising the implementation of the 1949 POW convention. It examines the importance of neutral supervision …
Life between the volcanoes.’ Switzerland during the Second World War
First paragraph: On the afternoon of 21 April 1941, Maria Guiness, wife of one of the leading figures in the thriving English ex-patriot community on the banks of Lake Geneva, composed a letter in which she described life in wartime Switzerland. Her correspondent knew Switzerland only too well. Sir George Warner had been Britain's minister in Berne from 1936 and had only returned to London to take up a temporary appointment in the foreign office …
Marcel Pilet‐Golaz, David Kelly and Anglo‐Swiss relations in 1940
First paragraph: Switzerland's Foreign Minister and Federal President for 1940, Marcel Pilet-Golaz, has held centre-stage in the historical record of Switzerland's wartime experience. Moving to the Swiss Federal Political Department (foreign ministry) in March 1940, Pilet stamped his character on Swiss foreign relations and successfully steered his country through the testing war years before retiring from political life five years later in Decem…
Recent books
J. Ruane & J. Todd (1996), The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, ISBN: 0–521–56879‐X, £14.95 (pbk), or 0–521–65018–7 £45.00 (hbk) W. Kaiser (1996), Using Europe, Abusing the Europeans: Britain and European Integration 1945–1963. Macmillan, London, ISBN: 0–333–64942–7, £40.00 (hbk) M. Kaufmann, (forthcoming), Europäische Integration und Demokratieprinzip. Nomos‐Verlag…
Recent books
Aung San Suu Kyi Letters from Burma Penguin (1997), London, ISBN 0–140264035, £6.99 (pbk). Shimon Naveh In Pursuit of Military Excellence Frank Cass (1997), London, ISBN 0–7146–4727–6, £25.00 (hbk). David J. Whittaker United Nations in the Contemporary World Routledge (1997), London, ISBN 0–415–15317–4, £8.99 (pbk). Henrick Larsen Foreign Policy and Discourse Analysis: France, Britain and Europe Routledge (1997), London, ISBN 0–415–15976–8, £24.9…
Problems of neutrality
Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.13 (1939–1940), edited by Jean‐François Bergier and André Jäggi (with the collaboration of Marc Perrenoud). Berne: Benteli Verlag, 1991. cvii + 1098 pp. 6 annexes. Sw.Fr.150. ISBN 3–7165–0725–3. Documents Diplomatiques Suisses/Diplomatische Dokuments der Schweiz/Documenti Diplomatici Svizzeri 1848–1945, Vol.14 (1941–1943), edited by A…
An Amateur Learns his Job’? Special Operations Executive in Portugal, 1940–42
During the first years of its existence, Special Operations Executive looked to neutral Europe as an area in which it could deploy its limited resources against German interests with a reasonable chance of success. By early 1942, however, it was clear that neutral Europe had failed to live up to SOE's expectations. Most of SOE's plans had either been aborted or cancelled. This article examines SOE's work in Portugal between early 1941 and summer …
European Neutrals and Non-Belligerents during the Second World War
Prisoner of war relief and humanitarianism in Canadian external policy during the Second World War
British Smuggling Operations From Switzerland, 1940–1944
This article departs from traditional writing on British economic warfare against the Axis during the Second World War by highlighting the efforts made by the British government to evade German ‘counter-blockade’ measures and secure access to European sources of supply. It does so by examining British efforts to obtain Swiss industrial equipment and manufactures after June 1940, when German military success effectively severed normal communicatio…
The Politics and Strategy of Clandestine War
1. Introduction: Politics and Strategy in the Clandestine War - new perspectives in the study of S.O.E. Neville Wylie 2. 'Of Historical Interest Only': The origins and vicissitudes of the SOE Archive Duncan Stuart 3. A glass half full - Some thoughts on the evolution of the study of the Special Operations Executive Mark Seaman 4. The 'Massingham' Mission and the Secret 'Special relationship': Cooperation and rivalry between the Anglo-American cla…
Prisoners of War in the Era of Total War
Loot, Gold, and Tradition in the United Kingdom's Financial Warfare Strategy, 1939–1945
First paragraph: The Third Reich's gold sales during the Second World War came to public notice in the 1990s, owing to growing interest in the fate of personal assets - bank accounts, properties, paintings, and other works of art - stolen by the Nazi regime and its collaborators, which had remained beyond the reach of their rightful owners. The investigations then carried out, often officially sponsored, shed light on the murky world of internati…
Barbed Wire Diplomacy
"Expanding our understanding of both the formulation and execution of POW policy in both capitals, the book sheds new light on the dynamics in inter-belligerent relations during the war. It suggests that while the Second World War should be rightly acknowledged as a conflict in which traditional constraints were routinely abandoned in the pursuit of political, strategic, and ideological goals, in this important area of Anglo-German relations, cus…
Caught in the Middle
It is a reflection of the apparent dearth of scholarship on the history of neutrality in the First World War that this fine collection of essays—and the 2009 conference which gave rise to them—take as their point of departure a thesis developed nearly half a century ago. Nils Ørvik’s The Decline of Neutrality 1914–1941, published in 1953 and updated in 1971, has certainly weathered the test of time. Its central proposition—that the law-based neut…
The Korean War and the Post-war Prisoner of War Regime, 1945–1956
This paper examines the framework for the treatment of prisoners of war that emerged after 1945. It focuses on one of the key elements of the post-war prisoner of war (POW) regime, the role of neutral bodies – state authorities acting as ‘protecting powers’ or humanitarian agencies such as the International Committee of the Red Cross – in supervising the implementation of the 1949 POW convention. It examines the importance of neutral supervision …
The Impact of World War I on the Law Governing the Treatment of Prisoners of War and the Making of a Humanitarian Subject
This article evaluates the impact of World War I on the development of international humanitarian law (IHL) regarding the treatment of the prisoner of war (POW). In contrast to traditional scholarship, which overlooks the war’s significance on the jus in bello, we argue that in the area of POW law, the changes brought about by the war were significant and long-lasting and led to the creation of a POW convention in 1929 that set IHL onto a markedl…
Resilient Humanitarianism? Using Assemblage to re-evaluate the history of the League of Red Cross Societies
The League of Red Cross Societies (LRCS) – known as the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) since 1991 – has received little historical attention despite representing the world’s largest volunteer network and being an integral part of the Red Cross Movement. Formed in the aftermath of the First World War by the national Red Cross Societies of the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan, the LRCS a…
Red Cross Movement
The North Atlantic Triangle and Canadian ‘Humanitarian’ Policy in the Second World War
This article moves away from high politics and strategic policy to examine Canada’s ‘humanitarian’ foreign policy, with reference to Ottawa’s involvement in Allied relief operations on behalf of prisoners in Europe and the Far East during the Second World War. When war broke out in 1939, Canada was the only Dominion not to comply with London’s request that all communications with Washington be channelled through the Foreign Office. Instead, Ottaw…
Hidden presences
This article explores the role next-of-kin played in framing discussion over the treatment of military prisoners during the era of the two world wars. Prisoners’ next-of-kin came to assume an influential position during the First World War, and this was reflected in the 1929 POW Convention, which deliberately anticipated their involvement in shaping public debate and government policy in future wars. These assumptions proved faulty; the Second Wo…
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