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America's captives : treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror / Paul J. Springer

Type de contenu
  • Texte
Type de médiation
  • sans médiation
Titre(s)
  • America's captives : treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror / Paul J. Springer
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
  • Lawrence, Ks. : University Press of Kansas, cop. 2010
Description matérielle
  • 1 vol. (VIII-278 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection
  • Modern war studies
ISBN
  • 978-0-7006-1717-3
  • 0-7006-1717-5
EAN
  • 9780700617173 rel.
Appartient à la collection
  • Modern war studies 2691-9508
Classification décimale Dewey
  • 355.129 609
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
  • Bibliogr. p. 251-268. Index
Note sur le contenu
  • Introduction: American pow policy and practice Struggling into existence: the American Revolution The first declared war: the War of 1812 Prisoners on foreign soil: the war against Mexico Brother against brother: the American Civil War America becomes a world power, 1865-1919 America becomes a superpower: World War II Containing communism : the Korean War The dominoes begin to fall: the Vietnam War Pow policy in the post-cold war era Conclusion : the future of American pow policy
Résumé ou extrait
  • Focusing on each major war in turn, Springer examines the lessons learned and forgotten by American military and political leaders regarding our nation's experience in dealing with foreign POWs. He highlights the indignities of the Civil War, the efforts of the United States and its World War I allies to devise an effective POW policy, the unequal treatment of Japanese prisoners compared with that of German and Italian prisoners during World War II, and the impact of the Geneva Convention on the handling of Korean and Vietnamese captives. In bringing his coverage up to the so-called War on Terror, he also marks the nation's clear departure from previous practice--American treatment of POWs, once deemed exemplary by the Red Cross after Operation Desert Storm, has become controversial throughout the world
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