Plennye - litsa, nakhodyashchiesya vo vlasti zakhvativshey ikh derzhavy, ogranichivshey ikh svobodu s tselyu isklyucheniya uchastiya v vooruzhyennoy borbe. Fenomen massovogo plena voznik v usloviyakh bespretsedentnoy po svoim masshtabam Pervoy mirovoy voyny. V knige rasskazyvaetsya o polozhenii voennoplennykh Pervoy mirovoy voyny v Sibiri i rossiyskoy politike v ikh otnoshenii s 1914 po 1925 gg. Rekomenduetsya prepodavatelyam, studentam i vsem, kto interesuetsya voennoy istoriey, a takzhe istoriey Rossii i Sibiri.