The Prisoner Of War And How Treated

Author : Robert Doyle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813173833
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enemy in Our Hands written by Robert Doyle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelations of abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war on terror marked a watershed moment in the study of modern warfare and the treatment of prisoners of war. Amid allegations of human rights violations and war crimes, one question stands out among the rest: Was the treatment of America’s most recent prisoners of war an isolated event or part of a troubling and complex issue that is deeply rooted in our nation’s military history? Military expert Robert C. Doyle’s The Enemy in Our Hands: America’s Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror draws from diverse sources to answer this question. Historical as well as timely in its content, this work examines America’s major wars and past conflicts—among them, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and Vietnam—to provide understanding of the United States’ treatment of military and civilian prisoners. The Enemy in Our Hands offers a new perspective of U.S. military history on the subject of EPWs and suggests that the tactics employed to manage prisoners of war are unique and disparate from one conflict to the next. In addition to other vital information, Doyle provides a cultural analysis and exploration of U.S. adherence to international standards of conduct, including the 1929 Geneva Convention in each war. Although wars are not won or lost on the basis of how EPWs are treated, the treatment of prisoners is one of the measures by which history’s conquerors are judged.

Author : A. Roach
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781478325833
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of War and How Treated written by A. Roach and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1865, this contains a history of Union Colonel Streight's expedition to the rear of Bragg's Army in the spring of 1863 and a correct account of the treatment and conditions of the Union prisoners of war in the Rebel prisons of the South in 1863-4. Being the actual experience os a Union officer during twenty two months' imprisonment in Rebeldom. With personal adventures, biographical sketches and history of Andersonville prison pen.

Author : James Massie Gillispie
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412558
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Andersonvilles of the North written by James Massie Gillispie and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. It explains how Confederate prisoners' suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them.

Author : Robert C. Doyle
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813139619
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enemy in Our Hands written by Robert C. Doyle and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2010-05-14 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war on terror marked a watershed momentin the study of modern warfare and the treatment of prisoners of war. Amid allegations of human rights violations and war crimes, one question stands out among the rest: Was the treatment of America's most recent prisoners of war an isolated event or part of a troubling and complex issue that is deeply rooted in our nation's military history?Military expert Robert C. Doyle's The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror draws from diverse sources to answer this question. Historical as well as timely in its content, this work examines America's major wars and past conflicts -- among them, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and Vietnam -- to provide understanding of the UnitedStates' treatment of military and civilian prisoners. The Enemy in Our Hands offers a new perspective of U.S. military history on the subject of EPWs and suggests that the tactics employed to manage prisoners of war are unique and disparate from one conflict tothe next. In addition to other vital information, Doyle provides a cultural analysis and exploration of U.S. adherence to international standards of conduct, including the 1929 Geneva Convention in each war. Although wars are not won or lost on the basis of how EPWs are treated, the treatment of prisoners is one of the measures by which history's conquerors are judged.

Author : George Glover Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army, 1776-1945 written by George Glover Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alva C. Roach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of War, and how Treated written by Alva C. Roach and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel J. McCarthy
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780428193775
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of War in Germany written by Daniel J. McCarthy and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Prisoner of War in Germany: The Care and Treatment of the Prisoner of War With a History of the Development of the Principle of Neutral Inspection and Control From the outbreak of the present war to the breaking of diplomatic relations, a period covering two and a half years, our State Department elab orated and carried out an important piece of work which received scant notice in the public prints. To our various embassies were delegated the care of the prisoners of war in Russia, Ger many, Austria, France and Great Britain. When, therefore, the Department gave leave to print matters in relation to this work, I felt it a duty to present the problem in Germany, and its solution, in book form. This report is based upon a personal experience of several months' intimate contact, in an official position, with the problem involved. It might be said that it is, in simple language, a report of a survey of the Prisoner of War situation in Ger many for the year 1916. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Daniel Joseph McCarthy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of War in Germany written by Daniel Joseph McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Joseph McCarthy
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230217833
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prisoner of War in Germany; the Care and Treatment of the Prisoner of War with a History of the Development of the Principle of Neutral Inspection written by Daniel Joseph McCarthy and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X WOBKING CAMPS IN previous wars it was the custom to exchange prisoners of war, man for man, officer for officer, of equal grades or multiples of lesser grade for officers of higher rank. During the present war no such exchange has taken place. The prisoners so badly wounded that there was no possibility of their being further employed in military service, munition works, etc., have been exchanged. If we examine into the reasons for this deviation from the practice of previous wars we will find that it rests largely upon the economic problem involved in the countries at war. At the end of the first year of the war two factors entered largely into the decision of the German Government to use the prisoner of war as a workman. On account of the blockade by the British fleet the production of food for the German population and for the prisoner of war became a pressing and urgent problem. The use of munitions had far exceeded that which the military authorities had counted upon and the conversion of many industries to this use, with an attempt to maintain the national industries of the country, led to the demand of an increased amount of labor. The war had already drawn into the fighting ranks every able-bodied man between the ages of eighteen and forty-five. Germany has under arms nine millions of men. From an economic standpoint we must consider each man as a working machine for the conversion of energy. The amount of work that may be expected from such a machine can be fairly estimated from the amount of the intake of food in heat units. Each man in ordinary work uses up six hundred food units (calories) for the purpose of work. When this is calculated for nine millions of men in the army, it means that the remaining group, male...

Author : Paul J. Springer
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700617175
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book America's Captives written by Paul J. Springer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010-03-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantnamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive study of the subject in more than half a century, Paul Springer presents an in-depth look at American POW policy and practice from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Springer contends that our nation's creation and application of POW policy has been repeatedly improvised and haphazard, due in part to our military's understandable focus on defeating its enemies on the field of battle, rather than on making arrangements for their detention. That focus, however, has set the conditions for the military's chronic failure to record and learn from both successful and unsuccessful POW practices in previous wars. He also observes that American POW policy since World War II has largely sought to outsource POW operations to allied forces in order to retain American personnel for frontline service-outsourcing that has led to recent scandals. 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. America's Captives provides a long-needed overarching framework for this important subject and makes a strong case that we should stop ignoring the lessons of the past and make the disposition of prisoners one of the standard components of our military education and training.