Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War and incarcerated as prisoners of war (POWs). In this original investigation into their experiences of ...captivity, Wilkinson uses official and private British source material to explore how these servicemen were challenged by, and responded to, their wartime fate. Examining the psychological anguish associated with captivity, and physical trials, such as the controlling camp spaces; harsh routines and regimes; the lack of material necessities; and, for many, forced labour demands, he asks if, how and with what effects British POWs were able to respond to such challenges. The culmination of this research reveals a range of coping strategies embracing resistance; leadership and organisation; networks of support; and links with 'home worlds'. British Prisoners of War offers an original insight into First World War captivity, the German POW camps, and the mentalities and perceptions of the British servicemen held within.
Bearing Witness Gautier, Andres; Scalmati, Anna Sabatini
2010, 20180508
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'In their discussion of torture, the contributors to this book write of what its victims cannot put into words and the work that has to be done with them to that end. Working with a victim's account ...of a traumatic experience goes much further than any debriefing technique would have us believe - above all, victims need someone to listen carefully to what they have to say; that person will be the first to offer a refuge for the pain of those who have no internal "shelter" of their own. The authors go on to discuss the kind of mental processing that can free victims from their unspeakable trauma, a trauma that has no framework in time nor words with which to express it.Under the skilful editorship of Andres Gautier and Anna Sabatini, this book asks of both psychoanalysts and politicians a question that goes right to the heart of their "impossible professions".- Rene Kaes, from the Foreword
Lost in the Cold War Downey, John T; Christensen, Thomas; Downey, Jack
08/2022
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In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer
from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean
War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner
...Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next
twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show
trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps,
and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war
came and went, but Downey and Fecteau's release hinged on the
United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until
Nixon's visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to
secure Fecteau's release in 1971 and Downey's in 1973. Lost in
the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downey's
decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home.
Downey's lively and gripping memoir-written in secret late in
life-interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the
absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences:
fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a
3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors,
and posing for "show" photographs for propaganda purposes. Through
the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey
watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the
drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters,
Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations,
explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the
story of how Downey and Fecteau's families, the CIA, the U.S. State
Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to
secure their release.
Following publication of the original article 1, the authors advised that the name of the 4
author had been submitted incorrectly; the author has the family name 'Pouraboli', however, their article ...was originally published with the family name (mis) spelled as 'Pouraboili'.
The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay has long been synonymous with torture, secrecy, and the abuse of executive power. It has come to epitomize lawlessness and has sparked protracted legal ...battles and political debate. For too long, however, Guantanamo has been viewed in isolation and has overshadowed a larger, interconnected global detention system that includes other military prisons such as Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, secret CIA jails, and the transfer of prisoners to other countries for torture. Guantanamo is simply - and alarmingly - the most visible example of a much larger prison system designed to operate outside the law.Habeas Corpus after 9/11 examines the rise of the U.S.-run global detention system that emerged after 9/11 and the efforts to challenge it through habeas corpus (a petition to appear in court to claim unlawful imprisonment). Habeas expert and litigator Jonathan Hafetz gives us an insider's view of the detention of enemy combatants and an accessible explanation of the complex forces that keep these systems running. In the age of terrorism, some argue that habeas corpus is impractical and unwise. Hafetz advocates that it remains the single most important check against arbitrary and unlawful detention, torture, and the abuse of executive power.
Millions of children in the United States have a parent who is incarcerated and a growing number of these nurturers are mothers. Disrupted Childhoods explores the issues that arise from a mother's ...confinement and provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children with moms behind bars. Jane A. Siegel offers a perspective that recognizes differences over the long course of a family's interaction with the criminal justice system.
Presenting an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned, this book reveals the many challenges they face from the moment such a critical caregiver is arrested to the time she returns home from prison. Based on interviews with nearly seventy youngsters and their mothers conducted at different points of their parent's involvement in the process, the rich qualitative data of Disrupted Childhoods vividly reveals the lived experiences of prisoners' children, telling their stories in their own words. Siegel places the mother's incarceration in context with other aspects of the youths' experiences, including their family life and social worlds, and provides a unique opportunity to hear the voices of a group that has been largely silent until now.
Of the hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian women were sentenced to
the Gulag in the 1940s and 1950s, only half survived. In
Survival as Victory , Oksana Kis has produced the first
anthropological ...study of daily life in the Soviet forced labor
camps as experienced by Ukrainian women prisoners. Based on the
written memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories of over 150
survivors, this book fills a lacuna in the scholarship regarding
Ukrainian experience. Kis details the women's resistance to the
brutality of camp conditions not only through the preservation of
customs and traditions from everyday home life, but also through
the frequent elision of regional and confessional differences.
Following the groundbreaking work of Anne Applebaum's Gulag: A
History (2003), this book is a must-read for anyone interested
in gendered strategies of survival, accommodation, and resistance
to the dehumanizing effects of the Gulag.
The Killing Season Robinson, Geoffrey B
2018, 2018., 20180213, 2018-02-13, Letnik:
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"Explores one of the largest and swiftest, yet least examined, instances of mass killing and incarceration in the twentieth century--the shocking antileftist purge that gripped Indonesia in 1965-66, ...leaving some five hundred thousand people dead and more than a million others in detention. An expert in modern Indonesian history, genocide, and human rights, Geoffrey Robinson sets out to account for this violence and to end the troubling silence surrounding it. In doing so, he sheds new light on broad and enduring historical questions. How do we account for instances of systematic mass killing and detention? Why are some of these crimes remembered and punished, while others are forgotten? What are the social and political ramifications of such acts and such silence? Challenging conventional narratives of the mass violence of 1965-66 as arising spontaneously from religious and social conflicts, Robinson argues convincingly that it was instead the product of a deliberate campaign, led by the Indonesian Army. He also details the critical role played by the United States, Britain, and other major powers in facilitating mass murder and incarceration. Robinson concludes by probing the disturbing long-term consequences of the violence for millions of survivors and Indonesian society as a whole"
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