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Encyclopedia of prisoners of war and internment / Jonathan Vance, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners of war--Encyclopedias.
- Prisoners of war.
- Nazi concentration camps--Encyclopedias.
- Nazi concentration camps.
- Internment camps--Encyclopedias.
- Internment camps.
- Genre:
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 408 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmp. cm
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Barbara, Calif : ABC-CLIO, [2000]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Accommodation 1
- Afghan Wars 3
- Agincourt Massacre 4
- Altmark Incident 5
- American Revolution 6
- Andersonville 9
- Apache Wars 10
- Arbeitskommandos 12
- Ardeatine Caves Massacre 13
- Ashanti Wars 14
- Assurance 15
- Auschwitz 15
- Avitaminosis 16
- Aztecs 17
- Bader, Douglas Robert Steuart 19
- Barbary Wars 19
- Barbed-Wire Disease 20
- Basil II Bulgaroctonus 22
- Bataan Death March 23
- Berger, Gottlob 24
- Bicycle Camp 24
- Big Switch, Operation 25
- Black Hole of Calcutta 25
- Blue Division 27
- Boer War 27
- Bosnian War 30
- Boulle, Pierre 31
- Brandstrom, Elsa 31
- The Bridge on the River Kwai 32
- British Army Aid Group 32
- British Free Corps 33
- Brussels Declaration 34
- Buchenwald 34
- Bullet Decree 35
- Burma-Thailand (Death) Railway 36
- Bushell, Roger Joyce 37
- Cabanatuan 39
- Camp Followers 40
- The Captive Heart 41
- Cavell, Edith 42
- Central POW Agency 42
- Cervantes, Miguel de 43
- Changi 44
- Chaplains 45
- Chieti 46
- Children 47
- Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer 49
- Civilian Interness
- World War I 49
- Civilian Internees
- World War II 51
- World War II
- Britain 52
- North America 54
- Code of Conduct 57
- Colditz 58
- The Colditz Story 59
- Colonial Captivity Narratives 60
- Commando Order 62
- Commissar Order 62
- Concentration Camps 63
- Cowra Incident 64
- Crusades 66
- Cummings, Edward Estlin (e. e.) 67
- Czech Legion 68
- Dachau 71
- Dartmoor 72
- Dean, Major General William F. 72
- Decree Concerning Prisoners of War 73
- Defection 74
- Defence Regulation 18B 75
- DEF/SEP Status 75
- Doolittle Raid 77
- Dulag Luft 77
- Education 79
- Egypt, Ancient 80
- Elmira 82
- English Civil War 83
- Epidemics 85
- Escape 86
- Exchange 88
- Extermination Camps 90
- Falklands War 93
- Families 94
- Featherston Incident 97
- Film 98
- Forcible Repatriation 100
- Franco-Prussian War 102
- Fraustadt-Grodno Massacres 103
- French Revolution, Wars of the 103
- Fryatt, Charles Algernon 104
- Gaulle, Charles-Andre-Marie-Joseph de 107
- Geneva Convention of 1929 107
- Geneva Convention of 1949 108
- Geneva Conventions of 1864 and 1906 109
- Gerard, James Watson, III 110
- Gestapo 110
- Giraud, Henri-Honore 111
- Grand Illusion (La Grande Illusion) 112
- Great Escape 112
- The Great Escape 113
- Great Northern War 114
- Greece
- Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Period 115
- Hellenistic Period 117
- Grotius, Hugo (Huigh de Groot) 120
- Guerrillas 121
- Gulag 123
- Gulf War 123
- Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 125
- Hanoi Hilton 126
- Health 126
- Hittites 129
- Ho Chi Minh Trail 131
- Hogan's Heroes 132
- Holloway Prison 132
- Holzminden 133
- Homecoming, Operation 133
- Homosexuality 134
- Human Shields 136
- Hundred Years War 137
- Imma 139
- Indian Mutiny 139
- India-Pakistan Wars 140
- Indoctrination 141
- Information Bureaus 142
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 143
- International Law 145
- Interrogation 147
- Interrogation in Depth 149
- Island Farm 150
- Isle of Man 152
- Italian Unification, Wars of 153
- Jacobite Risings 155
- Jean II of France 156
- Karbala 157
- Katyn Forest Massacre 157
- Keelhaul, Operation 158
- King Rat 159
- Koje Incident 159
- Korean War 160
- Kosovo War 162
- Labor 165
- Lamsdorf 167
- Libby Prison 168
- Liberation 169
- Libraries 173
- Liddell, Eric Henry 174
- Lidice Massacre 175
- Lieber Code 176
- Livingston, Camp 176
- Lynching 177
- Mail 179
- Malmedy Massacre 181
- The Manchurian Candidate 181
- Maori Wars 182
- Maschke Commission 183
- Mather, Cotton 184
- Merchant Seamen 185
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence 185
- Mexican-American War 186
- Meyer, Kurt 187
- MI9 189
- MIS-X 189
- Mixed Medical Commissions 190
- Mongols 191
- Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de 193
- More, Thomas 193
- Murman Railway 194
- Music 195
- Mutilation 196
- Napoleonic Wars 199
- Neutral Internees 201
- Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission 204
- Northern Ireland 205
- Nuremberg Trials 206
- Nurses 207
- Ooka Shohei 211
- Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre 211
- "Other Losses" 212
- Ottoman Empire 213
- Le Paradis Massacre 215
- Parole 215
- Pavie, Marie-Marguerite Fabre 217
- Pay 217
- Peiper, Joachim (Jochen) 218
- Peloponnesian War 219
- Percival, Arthur Ernest 220
- Philippine-American War 220
- Plains Indian Warfare 221
- POW/MIA Issue 223
- Prison Ships 224
- Prisoners of the Sun 225
- Protected Personnel 226
- Protecting Power 227
- Pueblo Incident 229
- Punic Wars 230
- Race 233
- Ransom 235
- Rations 237
- Reeducation 240
- Rehabilitation 243
- Religion 244
- Reparations 246
- Repatriation 247
- Reprisals 250
- Roman World 252
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 256
- Ruhleben 256
- Russian Civil War 258
- Russo-Japanese War 259
- St. John Ambulance 261
- Sandakan-Ranau Death March 262
- Scapini, Georges 262
- Scott, Winfield 263
- Seminole Wars 264
- Seven Years' War 265
- Sexual Relations 266
- Sexual Slavery 268
- Shackling Incident 270
- Sikh Wars 271
- Sinclair, Albert Michael 271
- Sioux Wars 272
- Slaughterhouse-Five 273
- Slavery 273
- Son Tay Raid 275
- Soviet Special Camps in Germany 276
- Soyinka, Wole 277
- Spanish Armada 278
- Spanish-American War 278
- Sphacteria, Battle of 279
- Sports 280
- Stalag Luft 3 283
- Stalag 17 283
- Stephenson, Sir William Samuel 284
- Stockdale, James Bond 284
- Sulmona 285
- Swedish-Russian Wars 285
- Taiping Rebellion 287
- Tamerlane 287
- Theater 288
- Thirty Years' War 289
- Thompson, Captain Floyd J. "Jim" 290
- Tokyo War Crimes Trials 291
- Townshend, Sir Charles Vere Ferrers 292
- Transit Camps 293
- Transportation by Sea 294
- Treaty of Amity and Commerce 295
- United States Civil War 297
- van der Post, Sir Laurens 301
- Vattel, Emmerich de 302
- Vichy France 302
- Vietnam War 303
- Vivisection 305
- Vlasov, Lieutenant General Andrei 307
- Von Ryan's Express 308
- Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr. 308
- Waffen-SS 311
- Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew 312
- War of 1812 312
- Wars of the Roses 315
- Werra, Franz von 316
- Wodehouse, Sir Pelham Grenville 316
- Women 317
- Wooden Horse 320
- World War I
- Africa 320
- Eastern Front 321
- Far East 323
- Middle East 324
- Ottoman Empire 325
- Western Front 326
- World War II
- Eastern Front 329
- Far East 333
- Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians 336
- Latin America 337
- North America 338
- Western Europe 341
- Wormhout Massacre 342
- Wounded Knee Massacre 343
- Yalta Conference 345
- Yeo-Thomas, Forest Frederick Edward 346
- Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) 346
- Zentsuji 349
- Extracts from Instructions for the Government of the Armies of the United States in the Field (the "Lieber Code") 357
- Extracts from the 1907 Hague Convention IV with Respects to the Laws and Customs of War on Land 362
- Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1929) 364
- Extracts from the Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (1949) 375.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1576070689
- OCLC:
- 44768948
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