MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01448cam a2200265 a 4500
001 2009044667
003 DLC
005 20100713085812.0
008 091026s2010 ksuao b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2009044667
020 $a9780700617173 (cloth : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
043 $an-us---
050 00 $aUB803$b.S67 2010
082 00 $a355.1/2960973$222
100 1 $aSpringer, Paul J.
245 10 $aAmerica's captives :$btreatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror /$cPaul J. Springer.
260 $aLawrence :$bUniversity Press of Kansas,$cc2010.
300 $aviii, 278 p. :$bill., photographs ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aModern war studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: American pow policy and practice -- Struggling into existence: the American Revolution -- The first declared war: the War of 1812 -- Prisoners on foreign soil: the war against Mexico -- Brother against brother: the American Civil War -- America becomes a world power, 1865-1919 -- America becomes a superpower: World War II -- Containing communism : the Korean War -- The dominoes begin to fall: the Vietnam War -- Pow policy in the post-cold war era -- Conclusion : the future of American pow policy.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$zUnited States$xHistory.
650 0 $aPrisoners of war$xGovernment policy$zUnited States$xHistory.
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory, Military.