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Questioning U.S. Policy On 'America's Captives'

In America's Captives, military historian Paul Springer argues that the history of the U.S. treatment of POWs reveals a haphazard approach.

Springer discusses the history of POWs, from the Revolutionary War to today's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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