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Prisoners of war

When subdivided by place, the name of the place may designate either the current location of prisoners of war, or the place of origin. For prisoners of war of a particular nationality held in another country, two headings are assigned: 1. Prisoners of war--country of nationality. 2. Prisoners of war--place where held.

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• Prisoners

• Prisoners of war -- Abuse of
• Prisoners of war -- Afghanistan
• Prisoners of war -- Austria
• Prisoners of war -- Civil rights
• Prisoners of war -- Confederate States of America
• Prisoners of war -- Cuba
• Prisoners of war -- Egypt
• Prisoners of war -- Family relationships
• Prisoners of war -- Fiction
• Prisoners of war -- Germany
• Prisoners of war -- India
• Prisoners of war -- Iraq
• Prisoners of war -- Israel
• Prisoners of war -- Juvenile fiction
• Prisoners of war -- Legal status, laws, etc.
• Prisoners of war -- Malaysia
• Prisoners of war -- Maryland
• Prisoners of war -- Medical care
• Prisoners of war -- Mental health
• Prisoners of war -- North Carolina
• Prisoners of war -- Philippines
• Prisoners of war -- Poland
• Prisoners of war -- Psychology
• Prisoners of war -- Rehabilitation
• Prisoners of war -- Russia
• Prisoners of war -- Southern States
• Prisoners of war -- Transportation
• Prisoners of war -- United States
• Ex-prisoners of war

• Exchange of prisoners of war
• POWs (Prisoners of war)
• War prisoners
• Prisoner of war

• Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, With Reservations, if Any, by Governments Participating in Hostilities in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos (Washington, DC: U. S. Government Printing Office, 1970)
  • Part 1: PDF at ttu.edu
  • Part 2: PDF at ttu.edu
  • Part 3: PDF at ttu.edu
• Symposium on Human Problems in the Utilization of Fallout Shelters (1960) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Detention Abuses Staining the New Libya (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)
• The Battle for Libya: Killings, Disappearances and Torture (2011), by Amnesty International (PDF at amnesty.org)

• Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror (New York: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, c2013), by Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers (PDF with commentary at imapny.org)

• Getting Away with Torture: The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees (c2011), by Human Rights Watch (Organization) (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Detained and Denied in Afghanistan: How to Make U.S. Detention Comply With the Law (New York: Human Rights First, c2011), by Daphne Eviatar (PDF at Wayback Machine)
• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Arbitrary Justice: Trial of Guantánamo and Bagram Detainees in Afghanistan (New York and Washington: Human Rights First, c2008), by Sahr MuhammedAlly (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Tupelo, by John H. Aughey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Tupelo, by John H. Aughey (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Seasons of Captivity: The Inner World of POWs (Translation of Ḥuts Mi-tsiporim; New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Amia Lieblich (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• Seasons of Captivity: The Inner World of POWs (Translation of Ḥuts Mi-tsiporim; New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Amia Lieblich (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• A Town Like Alice (c1950), by Nevil Shute (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Unter Kriegsgefangenen in Russland und Sibirien, 1914-1920 (in German; Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte M.B.H., 1922), by Elsa Brändström, trans. by Margarete Klante (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Captivity, Sufferings, and Escape of James Scurry, Who was Detained a Prisoner During Ten Years, in the Dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib (London: H. Fisher, 1824), by James Scurry (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Command's Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody in Iraq and Afghanistan (New York: Human Rights First, 2006), by Hina Shamsi, ed. by Deborah Pearlstein (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Seasons of Captivity: The Inner World of POWs (Translation of Ḥuts Mi-tsiporim; New York and London: New York University Press, c1994), by Amia Lieblich (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)

• L'Auberge de l'Ange Gardien (in French), by Sophie Ségur (Gutenberg text)

• Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions (2003; with full texts of the 1949 and 1977 conventions and protocols), by Maria Trombly
  • HTML at genevaconventions.org
  • HTML at spj.org (backup domain address)

• Comparison of Rights in Military Commission Trials and Trials in Federal Criminal Court (Washington: Congressional Research Service, 2010), by Jennifer Elsea (PDF with commentary at opencrs.com)

• Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Report of the Constitution Project's Report on Detainee Treatment (Washington: Constitution Project, c2013), by Constitution Project Task Force on Detainee Treatment (PDF with commentary at detaineetaskforce.org)

• Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival: The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Michael Dorland
  • PDF at Brandeis
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Soldier's Story: Prison Life and Other Incidents in the War of 1861-'65, by Miles O. Sherrill (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier (harlotte, NC: Stone Pub. Co., c1913), by L. Leon
  • illustrated HTML and TEI with commentary at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1919), by Bartlett Yancey Malone, ed. by William Whatley Pierson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Man's Inhumanity: A True Account of Life in a Concentration Camp (1949), by Father Melchior (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival: The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Michael Dorland
  • PDF at Brandeis
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Unter Kriegsgefangenen in Russland und Sibirien, 1914-1920 (in German; Berlin: Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte M.B.H., 1922), by Elsa Brändström, trans. by Margarete Klante (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Immortal Six Hundred: A Story of Cruelty to Confederate Prisoners of War (second edition; Roanoke, VA: Stone Printing and Manufacturing Co., 1911), by J. Ogden Murray
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations from World War II to Iraq (MG-934-OSD; c2011), by Cheryl Benard, Edward O'Connell, Cathryn Quantic Thurston, Andrés Villamizar, Elvira N. Loredo, Thomas Sullivan, and Jeremiah Goulka (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Permitting Bataan Death March Prisoners to Sue in U.S. Court of Claims: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Law and Governmental Relations of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 3188 (Washington: GPO, 1984), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay of Alabama, by Virginia Clay-Clopton (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• My Imprisonment and the First Year of Abolition Rule at Washington, by Rose O'Neal Greenhow (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Narrative of Prison Life at Baltimore and Johnson's Island, Ohio, by Henry E. Shepherd (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• The Old Capitol and Its Inmates, by Virginia Lomax (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
• A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1919), by Bartlett Yancey Malone, ed. by William Whatley Pierson (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Recollections and Reflections: An Auto of Half a Century and More, by Wharton J. Green (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

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