“Hostages of Empire opens a fascinating window to the experiences of French colonial prisoners in World War II. Frank positions colonial captivity in a wider context and sensitively examines the interplay between racism and political pragmatism.”—Ruth Ginio, author of The French Army and Its African Soldiers: The Years of Decolonization
“Based on meticulous, pathbreaking archival work, Hostages of Empire offers an impressive new history of wartime captivity. Skillfully centering the voices and experiences of colonial prisoners, it deepens and nuances in important ways our understanding of the entangled histories of the French Empire and the Second World War.”—Claire Eldridge, author of From Empire to Exile: History and Memory within the Pied-Noir and Harki Communities, 1962–2012