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Prisoners of War

Columbia Law Review, 1944
This chapter turns from captivity after wars, to captivity during wars. It argues that in the 1768 and 1787 Wars, the Ottoman state created a “prisoner of war” system by taking captured enemy combatants—soldiers and sailors—into its own custody, rather than allowing soldiers to sell them. They were no longer valued primarily for labor, ransom, or sale.
Harold Wright Holt, William E. S. Flory
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The Prisoner of War

Military Medicine, 1990
The prisoner of war (POW) experience is greatly influenced by the environmental and sociocultural factors of the particular captivity setting. Among the most important coping mechanisms are communication, maintenance of military social structure, and personality flexibility.
Robert J. Ursano, James R. Rundell
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Prisoner of War [PDF]

open access: possibleReviews in American History, 2009
Offshore prisons. Extraordinary rendition. Warrantless wiretaps. Torture. By pushing questions of civil liberties and human rights to the forefront of political consciousness, the war on terror has provided some new subjects of inquiry for American historians, while putting some old concerns in a new light.
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The Role of Marital Adjustment in Suicidal Ideation Among Former Prisoners of War and Their Wives: A Longitudinal Dyadic Study

Psychology of Violence, 2019
Objective: Posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) are implicated in high suicidality and low levels of marital quality among traumatized veterans and their wives.
G. Zerach   +3 more
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From Slaves to Prisoners of War

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018
The Ottoman–Russian wars of the eighteenth century reshaped the map of Eurasia and the Middle East, but they also birthed a novel concept—the prisoner of war.
Will Smiley
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The Impact of Captivity and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder on Cognitive Performance Among Former Prisoners of War: A Longitudinal Study.

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 2018
OBJECTIVE War captivity is a potent pathogen for various aspects of mental health, including cognitive impairments. However, little is known about the long-term impact of war captivity and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on cognitive functioning ...
Roy Aloni   +3 more
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Collaboration of the Heart: The Forbidden Love Affairs of French Prisoners of War and German Women in Nazi Germany*

The Journal of modern history, 2018
The German victory in the West in 1940 brought 1.5 million French prisoners of war (POWs) to Germany. Given that Germany and France had signed only an armistice, not a peace treaty, Germany did not release its prisoners but deployed them as laborers ...
R. Scheck
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The Prisoner of War

American Journal of International Law, 1913
There is probably no branch of the laws of war which stands in greater need of explanatory comment than do the chapters relating to prisoners of war. The generation preceding the great peace conferences at The Hague was marked by a number of important wars of which continental Europe was the theater; during these conflicts the number of persons reduced
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Women as Prisoners of War

Military Medicine, 1995
American women are increasingly becoming involved in combat-related roles. Inevitably, our country will have several killed and taken prisoner. No National Academy of Science/National Research Council or VA study has ever been undertaken to examine the chronic sequelae of the experiences undergone by these captured women.
Nadine Khouzam Skelton   +1 more
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Prisoners of War

Monthly Review, 2001
While the revered creator and abolitionist was doubtless addressing the barbaric treatment of four million of his people held in thralldom in the U.S. slave states, his voice resonates down through the corridors of time, touching and informing us as a new century dawns.
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