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    METHODS OF INTERROGATION OF A PRISONER OF WAR Introduction 1. A ‘Prisoner of War’ is a person‚ whether combatant or non-combatant‚ who is held in custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The treatment of prisoners has always been matter of debate in the world and many declarations and resolutions have been made in this regard including Geneva Convention of 1949. War is a time of confusion and while many suffer from it‚ there are many who benefit in the fog of it

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    Ghost Soldiers

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    Hampton Sides. Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II’s Most Dramatic Mission. New York. Doubleday. 2001 The Ghosts of Bataan Hampton Sides succeeded in representing the missing‚ forgotten‚ unheard‚ and often misinterpreted stories of some of World War II”s most dramatic missions. The goal of Ghost Soldiers was to bring together the scattered tales both horrific and heroic aspects of the conflict from a historically factual and unbiased point of view. The situation of the

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    Civil War casualties

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    Civil War Casualties: The Numbers The American Civil War‚ also known as the War Between the States‚ was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865 in the United States of America after seven Southern slave states declared their separation from the North and formed the Confederate States of America. The ACW is widley refered to Americnas bloodiest conflict and more Americans both Union and Confederate‚ ended up as causalities than in any other war in U.S. history.Casualties were those soldiers who were

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    of their HSIE assessment during the Week 4 assessment period. The essay is to be completed during their scheduled HSIE assessment period. Question: describe the experiences of Australians in WW1 and WW2 for either: Australian Nurses OR Australian Prisoners of War Part 1 – research log and essay scaffold (10%) You are required to complete the attached research log and essay scaffold. The purpose of the log is to develop your ability as an historian to select and analyse sources. The purpose of the scaffold

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    Corrections

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    of serious offences being committed by individuals‚ the community serves as an open prison for non custodial sentences‚ the ageing prison population needing special care to survive‚ the state government and expenditure on prisons‚ human right and prisoners rights being two separate matters and violence in prisons are all negatives of the prison system. The only substantial positive really worth mentioning is that prisons do keep dangerous off the streets and incapacitates them from doing any more physical

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    Unbroken

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    1/26/14 In the novel Unbroken‚ author Laura Hillenbrand‚ speaks of the many life experiences of the promising Olympic athlete‚ Louis Zamperini. Louis Zamperini is used to show how Japanese officials deprived Prisoners of War‚ of their human rights. In making effort to deny prisoners their human rights‚ the Japanese officials obeyed by the provisions of the 1929 Geneva Convention. Just prior to the war‚ the Japanese sought to get control of Nauru because of its natural resources. The Japanese

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    The Real Great Escape

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    The Great Escape Movie and Real Story The movie The Great Escape was based on the escape of many prisoners from a Nazi prison camp during World War II. Unfortunately‚ only a couple of the escapees made it to safety before being captured again. Once the prisoners were captured‚ they were sent to a Nazi prison camp called Stalag. If they had done nothing except passing their time patiently they would have been able to make it through the war safely. However‚ the Germans were rather dependent

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    unbroken

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    unbroken Chapters 1 + 2 The book so far is based around the story of an Italian boy named Louie Zampernini and his family. Louie’s father and mother moved from Italy and brought themselves up in a half-acre field with a one-room shack. “If it was edible‚ Louie stole it.” This is an idea brought up constantly in these chapters about Louie’s daring and witty attempts and successes at stealing‚ fighting‚ and causing most other kinds of mischief. The book also says that “Confident that he was clever

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    treatment of prisoners of war. During WW2 about 8‚600 Australians

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    soldiers would beat the women up for fun‚ she says “women sobbing for their husbands and the Japs’d come round and beat us for fun…useless mouths they’d call us” this particular quote enables the audience to understand just how hard and horrible being a prisoner of war must have been. Both authors use symbols or objects to represent certain achievements such as friendship as well as to trigger ephanies or realizations. For example John Misto uses the

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