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Prisoners of War (POW)

Doyle, Robert C. A Prisoner's Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History. United States Naval Institute, 1997. History of escapes and escape attempts from the colonial period through the 1980s.

Grant, Zalin. Survivors. Da Capo, 1994. Oral interviews with seven survivors of one of the worst death camps run by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam.

Howard, Michael; George J. Andreopoulos; and Mark R. Shulman, eds. The Laws of War: Constraints on Warfare in the Western World. Yale University Press, 1997. This series of essays explores the formal constraints and unwritten conventions on the conduct of war, including the treatment of prisoners of war, from classical antiquity to modern times.

Speer, Lonnie R. Portals to Hell: The Military Prisons of the Civil War. Stackpole, 1997. Study of Civil War prisons in the North and in the South.

Spiller, Harry, ed. American POWs in Korea: Sixteen Personal Accounts. McFarland, 1998. Personal interviews.

Swedberg, Claire E. In Enemy Hands: Personal Accounts of Those Taken Prisoner in World War II. Stackpole, 1998. Based on personal interviews with surviving prisoners of war; describes the experiences of prisoners on both sides of the conflict.

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