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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Springer, Paul J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2010]
Series:Modern war studies.
Subjects:
Prisoners of war > United States > History.
Prisoners of war > Government policy > United States > History.
United States > History, Military.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.