Hostage
Subtitle: the history, facts & reasoning behind hostage taking
By: John C. Griffiths.
Publisher: Andre Deutsch
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Hostages.; Hostages -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: A short history of political hostage-taking; value: Introduction; value: Captors win; value: Captors lose; value: Seizures drawn; value: Bungled rescues; value: Successful rescues; value: Proxime accessit; value: Negotiations; value: Negotiating; value: The captors; value: The captives; value: The coerced; value: Tomorrow's hostages; value: Post-second world war chronology; value: The Lebanon hostages.