Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Prisoners in War -- PART I: THE EMERGENCE OF LEGAL AND ETHICAL STANDARDS BEFORE THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 2. A Cautionary Tale from the Crusades? War and Prisoners in Conditions of Normative Incommensurability -- 3. Prisoners in Early Modern European Warfare -- 4. Prisoners of War in International Law: The Nineteenth Century -- 5. Prisoners in the First World War -- 6. The 1929 Prisoner of War Convention and the Building of the Inter-war Prisoner of War Regime -- PART II: PRISONERS IN REGULAR CONFLICTS-THE SECOND WORLD WAR -- 7. The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Western European Theatre of War, 1939-45 -- 8. The Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Eastern European Theatre of Operations, 1941-56 -- 9. Japanese Culture and the Treatment of Prisoners of War in the Asian-Pacific War -- PART III: DETAINEES IN IRREGULAR CONFLICTS -- 10. Prisoners in Colonial Warfare: The Imperial German Example -- 11. The French in Algeria: Can There be Prisoners of War in a 'Domestic' Operation? -- 12. Detention and Interrogation in Northern Ireland, 1969-75 -- 13. The Status and Treatment of Detainees in Russia's Chechen Campaigns -- PART IV: CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES -- 14. Private Military Personnel as Prisoners of War -- 15. Child Prisoners in War -- 16. Legal Issues Related to Armed Conflict with Non-state Groups -- 17. Detainees: Misfits in Peace and War -- 18. Outsourcing Torture: Extraordinary Rendition and the Necessity for Extraterritorial Protection of Human Rights -- 19. Terrorist Beheadings: Politics and Reciprocity -- 20. Conclusion: Prisoners and Detainees in Current and Future Military Operations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.