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Selling Guantanamo : exploding the propaganda surrounding America's most notorious military prison / John Hickman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hickman, John Charles, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prisoners of war--Cuba--Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
- Prisoners of war.
- War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Prisoners and prisons.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base (Cuba).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenges the U.S. government's official explanation for keeping hundreds of POWs from the War in Afghanistan in continued custody at Guantanamo.
- Contents:
- Part 1: The official explanation. 1. Framing the decision
- 2. Strange consensus
- 3. Three comparable historical cases
- 4. Extraordinary threat
- 5. Intelligence collection
- 6. Prosecution
- Part 2: The alternative explanation. 7. Spectacle of victory
- 8. Punishment
- 9. Announcement
- Part 3: Repercussions. 10. Closing Guantánamo
- 11. After Guantánamo.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8130-4719-6
- 0-8130-4840-0
- OCLC:
- 841914447
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