America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to...
America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and ...
In this remarkable tale of courage, illustrated with 38 b&w illustrations and 1 map, historian Dawn Trimble Bunyak recounts the experiences of her uncle, Lawrence Pifer, a radio operator and ball turret gunner on an American B-17 bomber who survived fourteen months of internment as a prisoner of war in World War II Nazi Germany.
In this remarkable tale of courage, illustrated with 38 b&w illustrations and 1 map, historian Dawn Trimble Bunyak recounts the experiences of her unc...
Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities are as old as war itself, they did not become punishable crimes until the law evolved to define them as such. War Crimes, Genocide, and the Law: A Guide to the Issues examines the types of war crimes and the motivations behind them, as well as the laws that seek to control and abolish these heinous acts.
Within the handbook, centuries of war crimes and genocides are analyzed and catalogued. At the same time, the author...
Kosovo, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Darfur, Auschwitz. War crimes have occurred in regions around the world and continue to this day. Although atrocities...
