America's Captives
Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
گزارش تخلف
کتاب های مرتبط
- اطلاعات
- نقد و بررسی
- دیدگاه کاربران
نقد و بررسی
March 1, 2010
In his well-documented survey, Springer (leadership & strategy, Air Command & Staff Coll.) argues that America has improvised and haphazardly managed its treatment of prisoners of war (POWs), from the thousands of British prisoners exchanged on a rank-for-rank basis during the Revolution to the Guantnamo prisoners in legal limbo today. In addressing a predictable problem in ad hoc ways, the United States has reckoned with issues of humanitarianism, military expediency, retaliation, the rule of law, and public perception. Springer uses the Revolution and the Civil War to highlight the difficulties; in both cases one side was reluctant to recognize the rights of POWs for fear of legitimizing the existence of the rebel statea problem that persists with today's nonstate combatants. Neither Springer nor Doyle is an easy or popular read, but these complementary titles are mandatory for all interested readersstudents, scholars, and informed lay persons. [Watch for this reviewer's next military history roundup in "LJ" 4/1/10.Ed.]Edwin B. Burgess, U.S. Army Combined Arms Research Lib. Fort Leavenworth, KS
Copyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
دیدگاه کاربران