1.Introduction: Prisoners in War&Sibylle Scheipers 1
PART Ⅰ THE EMERGENCE OF LEGAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR 23
2.A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? War and Prisoners in Conditions of Normative Incommensurability&Frederic Megret 23
3.Prisoners in Early Modern European Warfare&Peter H.Wilson 39
4.Prisoners of War in International Law: The Nineteenth Century&Stephen C.Neff 57
5.Prisoners in the First World War&Alan R.Kramer 75
6.The 1929 Prisoner of War Convention and the Building of the Inter-war Prisoner of War Regime&Neville Wylie 91
PART Ⅱ PRISONERS IN REGULAR CONFLICTS—THE SECOND WORLD WAR 111
7.The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Western European Theatre of War, 1939-45&Bob Moore 111
8.The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Eastern European Theatre of Operations, 1941-56&Rudiger Overmans 127
9.Japanese Culture and the Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Asian-Pacific War&Philip Towle 141
PART Ⅲ DETAINEES IN IRREGULAR CONFLICTS 157
10.Prisoners in Colonial Warfare: The Imperial German Example&Isabel V.Hull 157
11.The French in Algeria: Can There be Prisoners of War in a ‘Domestic' Operation?&Raphaelle Branche 173
12.Detention and Interrogation in Northern Ireland, 1969-75&Huw Bennett 187
13.The Status and Treatment of Detainees in Russia's Chechen Campaigns&Bettina Renz 205
PART Ⅳ CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 221
14.Private Military Personnel as Prisoners of War&Chia Lehnardt 221
15.Child Prisoners in War&Matthew Happold 237
16.Legal Issues Related to Armed Conflict with Non-state Groups&John B.Bellinger Ⅲ 251
17.Detainees: Misfits in Peace and War&Adam Roberts 263
18.Outsourcing Torture: Extraordinary Rendition and the Necessity for Extraterritorial Protection of Human Rights&David D.Cole 281
19.Terrorist Beheadings: Politics and Reciprocity&Alia Brahimi 297
20.Conclusion: Prisoners and Detainees in Current and Future Military Operations&Sibylle Scheipers 313
Index 321