The enemy in our hands
Subtitle: America's treatment of enemy prisoners of war, from the Revolution to the War on Terror
By: Robert C. Doyle
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780813125893
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-437) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prisoners of independence: British and Hessian enemy prisoners of war; title: Habeas corpus: war against Loyalists and Quakers; title: The second American Revolution: cartel and enemy prisoners of the War of 1812; title: Manifest destiny versus nativism: Mexico, 1846-1848; title: Prisoners of politics: a very uncivil war; title: Indians as POWs in America: from discovery to 1914; title: Spaniards and Insurrectos: Spanish-American War (1898) and war in the Philippines (1899-1905); title: Over there and over here: enemy prisoners of war and prisoners of state in the Great War; title: Pensionierte Wehrmacht: German and Italian POWs and internees in the United States; title: The reborn: Japanese soldiers as enemy prisoners of war and American Nisei internees; title: After the victory: optimism, justice, or vengeance?; title: Prisoners at war: forced repatriation and the prison revolts in Korea; title: Vietnam quagmire: enemy prisoners of war, Phoenix, and the Vietcong infrastructure; title: To Desert Storm and beyond: enemy prisoners of war and the conflict of rules; title: Iraqi freedom, Abu Ghraib, and the Guantanamo: the problem of the moral high ground; title: The evolution of new paradigms: reflections on the past, present, and future.