The Ottoman Great War and captivity in Russia and Egypt -- Imagining community and identity in Russia and Egypt: a comparison -- Saviour sons of the nation: inside the prisoners' minds -- Prisoners as disease carriers: cases of pellagra and trachoma -- War neuroses and prisoners of war: wartime nervous breakdown and the politics of medical interpretation -- Degenerationist pathway to eugenics: neuropsychiatry, social pathology and anxieties over national health -- Epilogue: the search for a useable past: prisoners of war, the Ottoman Great War and Turkish nationalism.