Overview

Full Product Details

9780700630516

Table of Contents

Reviews

"This book is a masterpiece of contemporary scholarship. It does what Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote say it is intended to do: examine the less-traveled roads with new understandings/visions of the American POW experience. No one can ask for more than that. I recommend it for every collection of American POW history."" - Robert C. Doyle, author of Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative ""Useful Captives, in clear and convincing fashion, demonstrates how prisoners of war have impacted the cultural, political, and tactical dimensions of American military conflicts. Ranging from the colonial era to the War on Terror, the contributors have produced one of the most important studies on war captives in decades."" - Glenn Robins, author of The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson"

This book is a masterpiece of contemporary scholarship. It does what Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote say it is intended to do: examine the less-traveled roads with new understandings/visions of the American POW experience. No one can ask for more than that. I recommend it for every collection of American POW history.--Robert C. Doyle, author of Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative Useful Captives, in clear and convincing fashion, demonstrates how prisoners of war have impacted the cultural, political, and tactical dimensions of American military conflicts. Ranging from the colonial era to the War on Terror, the contributors have produced one of the most important studies on war captives in decades.--Glenn Robins, author of The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson

Offering insights into both the P/W experience and evolving U.S. policy about prisoners-of-war, these papers open a new front in the study of this rather neglected side of military history.--New York Military Affairs Symposium Review This book is a masterpiece of contemporary scholarship. It does what Daniel Krebs and Lorien Foote say it is intended to do: examine the less-traveled roads with new understandings/visions of the American POW experience. No one can ask for more than that. I recommend it for every collection of American POW history.--Robert C. Doyle, author of Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative Useful Captives, in clear and convincing fashion, demonstrates how prisoners of war have impacted the cultural, political, and tactical dimensions of American military conflicts. Ranging from the colonial era to the War on Terror, the contributors have produced one of the most important studies on war captives in decades.--Glenn Robins, author of The Longest Rescue: The Life and Legacy of Vietnam POW William A. Robinson

Author Information

Daniel Krebs is associate professor of history, University of Louisville, and, during the 2020-2021 academic year, Harold K. Johnson Chair in Military History, U.S. Army War College. He is the author of A Generous and Merciful Enemy: Life for German Prisoners of War during the American Revolution. Lorien Foote is the Patricia and Bookman Peters Professor in History at Texas A&M University and is the author of The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available