The least worst place : how Guantanamo became the world's most notorious prison / Karen Greenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenberg, Karen B., 1964- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009--Prisoners and prisons, American.

War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.

Prisoners of war--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.

Prisoners of war.

Prisoners of war--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is the tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo Bay, along with their direct superiors, were unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Guide to People; Guide to Acronyms; Preface; 1 World Gone Wrong; 2 The First Team; 3 The Void; 4 Filling the Void; 5 The Bad Guys First; 6 The Petting Zoo; Photos; 7 The Caribbean Hilton; 8 The General and the Chaplain; 9 Missing Pieces; 10 A Political Animal; 11 Towels into Turbans; 12 Bowing Out; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Formerly CIP.

Previously issued in print: 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-252) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-04576-3

1-282-23507-9

9786612235078

0-19-156786-8

OCLC:

434871798