Behind Barbed Wire

An indispensable reference on concentration camps death camps prisoner-of-war camps and military prisons offering broad historical coverage as well as detailed analysis of the nature of captivity in modern conflict.This comprehensive reference work examines internment forced labor and extermination during times of war and genocide with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries and particular attention paid to World War II and recent conflicts in the Middle East. It explores internment as it has been used as a weapon and led to crimes against humanity and is ideal for students of global studies history and political science as well as politically and socially aware general readers addition to entries on such notorious camps as Abu Ghraib Andersonville Auschwitz and the Hanoi Hilton the encyclopedia includes profiles of key perpetrators of camp and prison atrocities and more than a dozen curated and contextualized primary source documents that further illuminate the subject. Primary sources include United Nations documents outlining the treatment of prisoners of war government reports of infamous camp and prison atrocities and oral histories from survivors of these notorious facilities.