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This reference work examines internment, forced labor, and extermination during times of war and genocide during the 20th and 21st centuries, with focus on World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as a weapon and how it has led to crimes against humanity. Includes profiles of key atrocity perpetrators and curated and contextualized primary source documents. For students of global studies, history, and political science and general readers.

Prisoner-of-war camps --- Internment camps --- Military prisons --- Concentration camps

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"The stories in The Greatest Escapes of WWII highlight the courage, endurance, and ingenuity of Allied prisoners, chronicling their ceaseless efforts and the alarm that spread far and wide when one or more escaped"--Provided by publisher

World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- Escaped prisoners of war --- Prisoners of war

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" This Southern state trained more troops than any other state in the nation. Can one still find the military posts and shipyards, the cemeteries and memorials, the convalescent units and R&R facilities today? This volume describes in detail both the state's 20-plus military sites and the eight little-known North Carolina Prisoner of War camps"--

World War, 1939-1945 --- Military bases --- Prisoner-of-war camps --- Historic sites --- History --- Prisoners and prisons. --- North Carolina --- History, Military

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Escaped prisoners of war --- Prisoner-of-war escapes --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Escapes --- Article 13 men (Escaped prisoners of war) --- Escaped POWs --- Escapees, Prisoner-of-war --- Escapers (Prisoners of war) --- POW escapees --- Prisoner-of-war escapees --- Ex-prisoners of war --- History --- Prisoners and prisons, German --- History of Belgium and Luxembourg --- anno 1940-1949

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In World War II, over 36,000 American men, mostly military but some civilian, were thrown into Japanese POW camps and forced to labor for companies working for Japan s war effort. At Japan s largest fixed military prison camp, Mitsubishi s huge factory complex at Mukden, Manchuria, more than 2,000 American prisoners where subjected to cold, starvation, beatings, and even medical experiments, while manufacturing parts for Zero fighter planes. Those lucky enough to survive required the efforts of an OSS rescue team and a special recovery unit to make it home alive.Holmes, who spent two decades t

World War, 1939-1945 --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Prisoners of war --- Prisoners of war --- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese. --- Conscript labor --- Mukden (Prisoner of war camp) --- Mitsubishi Zaibatsu --- History. --- Shenyang (Liaoning Sheng, China) --- History, Military