America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror

Notwithstanding the long shadows cast by Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo, the United States has been generally humane in the treatment of prisoners of war, reflecting a desire to both respect international law and provide the kind of treatment we would want for our own troops if captured. In this first comprehensive study of the subject in more than half a century, Paul Springer presents an in-depth look at American POW policy and practice from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq an...