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The enemy in our hands : America's treatment of enemy prisoners of war, from the Revolution to the War on Terror / Robert C. Doyle ; [foreword by Arnold Krammer].

by Doyle, Robert C.

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Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2010.

Prisoners of war -- United States -- History.

Prisoners of war -- Government policy -- United States -- History.

United States -- History, Military.

9780813125893 (hbk. : alk. paper)

0813125898 (hbk. : alk. paper)

xx, 468 p. : ill., photos ; 24 cm.

Introduction : The enemy : imposing the condition of captivity -- Prisoners of independence : British and Hessian enemy prisoners of war -- Habeas corpus : war against Loyalists and Quakers -- The second American Revolution : cartel and enemy prisoners of the War of 1812 -- Manifest destiny versus nativism : Mexico, 1846-1848 -- Prisoners of politics : a very uncivil war -- Indians as POWs in America : from discovery to 1914 -- Spaniards and Insurrectos : Spanish-American War (1898) and war in the Philippines (1899-1905) -- Over there and over here : enemy prisoners of war and prisoners of state in the Great War -- Pensionierte Wehrmacht : German and Italian POWs and internees in the United States -- The reborn : Japanese soldiers as enemy prisoners of war and American Nisei internees -- After the victory : optimism, justice, or vengeance? -- Prisoners at war : forced repatriation and the prison revolts in Korea -- Vietnam quagmire : enemy prisoners of war, Phoenix, and the Vietcong infrastructure -- To Desert Storm and beyond : enemy prisoners of war and the conflict of rules -- Iraqi freedom, Abu Ghraib, and the Guantanamo : the problem of the moral high ground -- The evolution of new paradigms : reflections on the past, present, and future.

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