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Cover title: POW. ; Bibliography: p. 173-181. ; Mode of access: Internet.

For the first time in over one hundred years the American public has large numbers of foreign prisoners of war in its midst. While German naval prisoners were held in the United States during the last World War they numbered only a few thousand men, as compared with the total today of over three hundred thousand Germans with additional numbers still pouring into our ports. The task of housing and feeding these prisoners, of providing for their other needs as well as of guarding them and putting them to work at productive labor, has been the responsibility of the War Department. With few precedents and practically no experience to fall back upon, it has done and is doing an enormous job with results that, as a whole, are a credit to the good name of the United States.

"June 3, 1980." ; At head of title: 96th Congress, 2d session. Senate Committee print, no. 25. ; Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181). ; Mode of access: Internet.

Argues that US treason laws unfairly penalize those with radical views; reviews counterinsurgency strategy.

The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these contemporary problems and challenges against the background of their historical development. It provides a multidisciplinary yet highly coherent perspective on the historicaltrajectory of legal and ethical norms in this field by integrating the historical analysis of war with a study of the emerg.

Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The second series, according to the preface in Series 1, Volume 1 contains "the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so far as the military authorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners" (p. iii). Index starts on page 955.

Records of the War of the Rebellion include copies of army correspondence (reports, letters, telegrams, and general orders) from both the Union and Confederate Armies discussing their operations. The second series, according to the preface in Series 1, Volume 1 contains "the correspondence, orders, reports, and returns, Union and Confederate, relating to prisoners of war, and (so far as the military authorities were concerned) to State or political prisoners" (p. iii). Index starts on page 971.