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An A-Z reference guide that provides a valuable overview of the history of prisoners of war and interned civilians, from earliest times to the present.

This invaluable A-Z reference work presents nearly 300 entries that survey the history of prisoners of war and interned civilians from the earliest times to the present, with emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries. Medical conditions, international law, exchanges of prisoners, organizations working on behalf of POWs, and trials associated with the treatment of captives are just some of the themes explored. Entries range from the Ardeatine Caves Massacre to Kurt Vonnegut.

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• Preface and Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Introduction(p. xi)
• List of Contributors(p. xv)
• Accommodation(p. 1)
• Afghan Wars(p. 3)
• Agincourt Massacre(p. 4)
• Altmark Incident(p. 5)
• American Revolution(p. 6)
• Andersonville(p. 9)
• Apache Wars(p. 10)
• Arbeitskommandos(p. 12)
• Ardeatine Caves Massacre(p. 13)
• Ashanti Wars(p. 14)
• Assurance(p. 15)
• Auschwitz(p. 15)
• Avitaminosis(p. 16)
• Aztecs(p. 17)
• Bader, Douglas Robert Steuart(p. 19)
• Barbary Wars(p. 19)
• Barbed-Wire Disease(p. 20)
• Basil II Bulgaroctonus(p. 22)
• Bataan Death March(p. 23)
• Berger, Gottlob(p. 24)
• Bicycle Camp(p. 24)
• Big Switch, Operation(p. 25)
• Black Hole of Calcutta(p. 25)
• Blue Division(p. 27)
• Boer War(p. 27)
• Bosnian War(p. 30)
• Boulle, Pierre(p. 31)
• Brandstrom, Elsa(p. 31)
• The Bridge on the River Kwai(p. 32)
• British Army Aid Group(p. 32)
• British Free Corps(p. 33)
• Brussels Declaration(p. 34)
• Buchenwald(p. 34)
• Bullet Decree(p. 35)
• Burma-Thailand (Death) Railway(p. 36)
• Bushell, Roger Joyce(p. 37)
• Cabanatuan(p. 39)
• Camp Followers(p. 40)
• The Captive Heart(p. 41)
• Cavell, Edith(p. 42)
• Central POW Agency(p. 42)
• Cervantes, Miguel de(p. 43)
• Changi(p. 44)
• Chaplains(p. 45)
• Chieti(p. 46)
• Children(p. 47)
• Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer(p. 49)
• Civilian Interness--World War I(p. 49)
• Civilian Internees--World War II(p. 51)
• Civilian Interness--World War II--Britain(p. 52)
• Civilian Internees--World War II--North America(p. 54)
• Code of Conduct(p. 57)
• Colditz(p. 58)
• The Colditz Story(p. 59)
• Colonial Captivity Narratives(p. 60)
• Commando Order(p. 62)
• Commissar Order(p. 62)
• Concentration Camps(p. 63)
• Cowra Incident(p. 64)
• Crusades(p. 66)
• Cummings, Edward Estlin (e. e.)(p. 67)
• Czech Legion(p. 68)
• Dachau(p. 71)
• Dartmoor(p. 72)
• Dean, Major General William F.(p. 72)
• Decree Concerning Prisoners of War(p. 73)
• Defection(p. 74)
• Defence Regulation 18B(p. 75)
• DEF/SEP Status(p. 75)
• Doolittle Raid(p. 77)
• Dulag Luft(p. 77)
• Education(p. 79)
• Egypt, Ancient(p. 80)
• Elmira(p. 82)
• English Civil War(p. 83)
• Epidemics(p. 85)
• Escape(p. 86)
• Exchange(p. 88)
• Extermination Camps(p. 90)
• Falklands War(p. 93)
• Families(p. 94)
• Featherston Incident(p. 97)
• Film(p. 98)
• Forcible Repatriation(p. 100)
• Franco-Prussian War(p. 102)
• Fraustadt-Grodno Massacres(p. 103)
• French Revolution, Wars of the(p. 103)
• Fryatt, Charles Algernon(p. 104)
• Gaulle, Charles-Andre-Marie-Joseph de(p. 107)
• Geneva Convention of 1929(p. 107)
• Geneva Convention of 1949(p. 108)
• Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906(p. 109)
• Gerard, James Watson, III(p. 110)
• Gestapo(p. 110)
• Giraud, Henri-Honore(p. 111)
• Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion)(p. 112)
• Great Escape(p. 112)
• The Great Escape(p. 113)
• Great Northern War(p. 114)
• Greece--Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period(p. 115)
• Greece--Hellenistic Period(p. 117)
• Grotius, Hugo (Huigh de Groot)(p. 120)
• Guerrillas(p. 121)
• Gulag(p. 123)
• Gulf War(p. 123)
• Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907(p. 125)
• Hanoi Hilton(p. 126)
• Health(p. 126)
• Hittites(p. 129)
• Ho Chi Minh Trail(p. 131)
• Hogan's Heroes(p. 132)
• Holloway Prison(p. 132)
• Holzminden(p. 133)
• Homecoming, Operation(p. 133)
• Homosexuality(p. 134)
• Human Shields(p. 136)
• Hundred Years War(p. 137)
• Imma(p. 139)
• Indian Mutiny(p. 139)
• India-Pakistan Wars(p. 140)
• Indoctrination(p. 141)
• Information Bureaus(p. 142)
• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)(p. 143)
• International Law(p. 145)
• Interrogation(p. 147)
• Interrogation in Depth(p. 149)
• Island Farm(p. 150)
• Isle of Man(p. 152)
• Italian Unification, Wars of(p. 153)
• Jacobite Risings(p. 155)
• Jean II of France(p. 156)
• Karbala(p. 157)
• Katyn Forest Massacre(p. 157)
• Keelhaul, Operation(p. 158)
• King Rat(p. 159)
• Koje Incident(p. 159)
• Korean War(p. 160)
• Kosovo War(p. 162)
• Labor(p. 165)
• Lamsdorf(p. 167)
• Libby Prison(p. 168)
• Liberation(p. 169)
• Libraries(p. 173)
• Liddell, Eric Henry(p. 174)
• Lidice Massacre(p. 175)
• Lieber Code(p. 176)
• Livingston, Camp(p. 176)
• Lynching(p. 177)
• Mail(p. 179)
• Malmedy Massacre(p. 181)
• The Manchurian Candidate(p. 181)
• Maori Wars(p. 182)
• Maschke Commission(p. 183)
• Mather, Cotton(p. 184)
• Merchant Seamen(p. 185)
• Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence(p. 185)
• Mexican-American War(p. 186)
• Meyer, Kurt(p. 187)
• MI9(p. 189)
• MIS-X(p. 189)
• Mixed Medical Commissions(p. 190)
• Mongols(p. 191)
• Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de(p. 193)
• More, Thomas(p. 193)
• Murman Railway(p. 194)
• Music(p. 195)
• Mutilation(p. 196)
• Napoleonic Wars(p. 199)
• Neutral Internees(p. 201)
• Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission(p. 204)
• Northern Ireland(p. 205)
• Nuremberg Trials(p. 206)
• Nurses(p. 207)
• Ooka Shohei(p. 211)
• Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre(p. 211)
• "Other Losses"(p. 212)
• Ottoman Empire(p. 213)
• Le Paradis Massacre(p. 215)
• Parole(p. 215)
• Pavie, Marie-Marguerite Fabre(p. 217)
• Pay(p. 217)
• Peiper, Joachim (Jochen)(p. 218)
• Peloponnesian War(p. 219)
• Percival, Arthur Ernest(p. 220)
• Philippine-American War(p. 220)
• Plains Indian Warfare(p. 221)
• POW/MIA Issue(p. 223)
• Prison Ships(p. 224)
• Prisoners of the Sun(p. 225)
• Protected Personnel(p. 226)
• Protecting Power(p. 227)
• Pueblo Incident(p. 229)
• Punic Wars(p. 230)
• Race(p. 233)
• Ransom(p. 235)
• Rations(p. 237)
• Reeducation(p. 240)
• Rehabilitation(p. 243)
• Religion(p. 244)
• Reparations(p. 246)
• Repatriation(p. 247)
• Reprisals(p. 250)
• Roman World(p. 252)
• Rousseau, Jean-Jacques(p. 256)
• Ruhleben(p. 256)
• Russian Civil War(p. 258)
• Russo-Japanese War(p. 259)
• St. John Ambulance(p. 261)
• Sandakan-Ranau Death March(p. 262)
• Scapini, Georges(p. 262)
• Scott, Winfield(p. 263)
• Seminole Wars(p. 264)
• Seven Years' War(p. 265)
• Sexual Relations(p. 266)
• Sexual Slavery(p. 268)
• Shackling Incident(p. 270)
• Sikh Wars(p. 271)
• Sinclair, Albert Michael(p. 271)
• Sioux Wars(p. 272)
• Slaughterhouse-Five(p. 273)
• Slavery(p. 273)
• Son Tay Raid(p. 275)
• Soviet Special Camps in Germany(p. 276)
• Soyinka, Wole(p. 277)
• Spanish Armada(p. 278)
• Spanish-American War(p. 278)
• Sphacteria, Battle of(p. 279)
• Sports(p. 280)
• Stalag Luft 3(p. 283)
• Stalag 17(p. 283)
• Stephenson, Sir William Samuel(p. 284)
• Stockdale, James Bond(p. 284)
• Sulmona(p. 285)
• Swedish-Russian Wars(p. 285)
• Taiping Rebellion(p. 287)
• Tamerlane(p. 287)
• Theater(p. 288)
• Thirty Years' War(p. 289)
• Thompson, Captain Floyd J. "Jim"(p. 290)
• Tokyo War Crimes Trials(p. 291)
• Townshend, Sir Charles Vere Ferrers(p. 292)
• Transit Camps(p. 293)
• Transportation by Sea(p. 294)
• Treaty of Amity and Commerce(p. 295)
• United States Civil War(p. 297)
• van der Post, Sir Laurens(p. 301)
• Vattel, Emmerich de(p. 302)
• Vichy France(p. 302)
• Vietnam War(p. 303)
• Vivisection(p. 305)
• Vlasov, Lieutenant General Andrei(p. 307)
• Von Ryan's Express(p. 308)
• Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.(p. 308)
• Waffen-SS(p. 311)
• Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew(p. 312)
• War of 1812(p. 312)
• Wars of the Roses(p. 315)
• Werra, Franz von(p. 316)
• Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville(p. 316)
• Women(p. 317)
• Wooden Horse(p. 320)
• World War I--Africa(p. 320)
• World War I--Eastern Front(p. 321)
• World War I--Far East(p. 323)
• World War I--Middle East(p. 324)
• World War I--Ottoman Empire(p. 325)
• World War I--Western Front(p. 326)
• World War II--Eastern Front(p. 329)
• World War II--Far East(p. 333)
• World War II--Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians(p. 336)
• World War II--Latin America(p. 337)
• World War II--North America(p. 338)
• World War II--Western Europe(p. 341)
• Wormhout Massacre(p. 342)
• Wounded Knee Massacre(p. 343)
• Yalta Conference(p. 345)
• Yeo-Thomas, Forest Frederick Edward(p. 346)
• Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA)(p. 346)
• Zentsuji(p. 349)
• Bibliography, Documents(p. 351)
• Extracts from Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field (the "Lieber Code")(p. 357)
• Extracts from the 1907 Hague Convention IV with Respects to the Laws and Customs of War on Land(p. 362)
• Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929)(p. 364)
• Extracts from the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949)(p. 375)
• Index(p. 401)

Reseñas proporcionadas por Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Vance (history, Univ. of Ontario; A Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape) here covers prisoner-of-war issues in major conflicts from ancient times to the present, though most entries are concerned with the wars of the last 200 years. The entries are arranged alphabetically under general topics, and most have at least two or three See Also references. The average entry is about three or four paragraphs long, and some are as long as a page. An extensive bibliography is included, as are several documents relating to the legal treatment of prisoners of war. This encyclopedia compares favorably with similar reference sources (e.g., Encyclopedia of Guerrilla Warfare, LJ 6/1/99); it is thorough and detailed yet accessible to the lay reader. Of special interest to subject specialists or historians; recommended for public and academic libraries.DMark Ellis, Albany State Univ., GA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Vance's work provides selective entries about prisoners and internees from as long ago as ancient Egypt and as recent as Bosnia. Although largely Eurocentric, entries cover everything from Aztecs to Zentsuji and range topically from "Race" to "Film." Vance (history, Univ. of Western Ontario and author of A Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape, Pacifica, CA, 2000) wrote many entries. Other contributors include captors and captives. Most entries include cross-references and bibliographic citations, and a core bibliography is concerned with POWs and internment. An appendix reprints documents pertaining to war captives. The only challenge in this work is locating information specific to the world wars. Some topics ("Lidice Massacre") have their own entries, while Japanese American internment is a subheading under WW II; others, such as Unit 731, are overlooked. An index ameliorates this to some degree, but there is no index entry for the Kut death march, even though it is well covered in "World War I--Middle East." Recommended for general readers and undergraduates. D. Liestman; Kansas State University

Booklist Review

This work ranges across history, continents, and cultures in conveying information about the treatment and return of prisoners of war, both military and civilian. The editor, a history professor at the University of Western Ontario, has written other books and articles on the topic. The contributors include scholars as well as former prisoners. The more than 200 signed, alphabetically arranged entries are well written. They cover conflicts, people, specific camps, living conditions, escape attempts, commissions and trials, laws, and depictions in television and film (Hogan's Heroes, Stalag 17). Additional topics include disease in POW camps, reparations, and individuals and organizations that have sought to alleviate suffering. Most entries are one or two pages but a few (e.g., Liberation, Rations, Roman world) are longer. Coverage begins in ancient times and ends with the 1998^-1999 Kosovo War. Each entry concludes with see also references and a few bibliographical citations, including Web sites. The general bibliography is divided by categories such as "Vietnam War" and "Women." Four documents from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on POW treatment add to the work's value. The index lists only page references (35 under Geneva convention of 1929, more than 40 under labor), which is not helpful to those trying to pull together information on broad topics. Otherwise, this is a carefully constructed and well-written work that will be useful to public and academic libraries for many years.

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Jonathan F. Vance is an instructor at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.