Prisoners of war
Subtitle: the American experience
By: edited by Vance R. Skarstedt.
Contributors: Skarstedt, Vance R.; Military History Symposium (U.S.) (19th : 2004 United States Air Force Academy)
Series: Military History Symposium series of the United States Air Force Academy -- v. 8
Publisher: Imprint Publications
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
Subjects: Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- Congresses.; United States -- History, Military -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: "Several of the 19th Military History Symposium's veteran participants were themselves prisoners of war.  Their experiences ... recorded and placed in context ... have become a valuable part of this volume"--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Prologue / Vance R. Skarstedt and Grant T. Weller; value: Representing captivity / Elliott Gruner; value: No man's land / William Marvel; value: The promptings of humanity / Richard B. Speed; value: Resistance in Japanese prison camps during World War II / Robert S. La Forte; value: For you the war is over / Philip D. Caine; value: Yanks in the Great Escape / Arthur A. Durand; value: The treatment of prisoners of war since World War II / Frederick Kiley; value: Evolution of the code of conduct / W. Hays Parks; value: Spouses and families of repatriated American prisoners of war / Elizabeth A. Thompson and Hamilton I McCubbin; value: Making experience count / Robert C. Doyle; value: The American POW experience in Iraq, 1991 /Thomas E. Griffith, Jr.; value: Epilogue / Vance R. Skarstedt.