Captives of War Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 45,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 October 2017

Capture-- Imprisoned servicemen -- Bonds between men -- Ties with home -- Going "round the bend"--Liberation -- Resettling -- Conclusion

• Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
• File Size : 47,7 Mb
• Release Date : 18 October 2019

Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as

• Publisher : Cornell University Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2015

In Life and Death in Captivity, Geoffrey P. R. Wallace explores the profound differences in the ways captives are treated during armed conflict. Wallace focuses on the dual role played

• Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
• File Size : 42,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 September 2022

This book offers new international perspectives on captivity in wartime during the twentieth century. It explores how global institutions and practices with regard to captives mattered, how they evolved and

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• File Size : 55,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 November 2007

America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with

• Publisher : University Press of Kansas
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 March 2010

Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 55,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 January 2013

The status of prisoners of war was firmly rooted in the practice of ransoming in the Middle Ages. By the opening stages of the Hundred Years War, ransoming had become

• Publisher : Columbia University Press
• File Size : 41,5 Mb
• Release Date : 12 November 2013

Kang Hang was a Korean scholar-official taken prisoner in 1597 by an invading Japanese army during the Imjin War of 1592–1598. While in captivity in Japan, Kang recorded his thoughts on human

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
• File Size : 54,7 Mb
• Release Date : 19 May 2024

Susan Carruthers offers a provocative history of early Cold War America, in which she recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. She shows how central to American opinion

• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• File Size : 53,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2022

Barbed-Wire Matinee -- Five Shots -- Fire and Crystal -- The Rescuers -- Sunset Train -- The Basement and the Judge -- Spy Fever -- Nightmare Mill -- The Misted