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• Green, Wharton J. (Wharton Jackson), 1831-1910

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

• Ex-POW Bulletin (2007-), by American Ex-Prisoners of War, inc. (partial serial archives)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• 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)

• 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)

• 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

• 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)

• Korean War Ex-POW Association Newsletter (issues with redacted contact information online 2005-2014) (partial serial archives)

• Accuracy Counts: Incarcerated People and the Census (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2004), by Patricia E. Allard and Kirsten D. Levingston (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)
• Our Penal Machinery and its Victims (new and revised edition; Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1886), by John Peter Altgeld (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.