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Portals to Hell
Lonnie R. Speer
其他書名
Military Prisons of the Civil War
出版Stackpole Books, 1997
主題History / Military / United StatesHistory / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Social Science / PenologyTechnology & Engineering / Military Science
ISBN08117033479780811703345
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=kCSQpPYnSFQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This is the most thorough study of Civil War POW camps, in which some 56,000 died. There are no villains here, though plenty of the inept, the shortsighted, the feebleminded, the sadistic. There is a chain of misperceptions leading to disaster, beginning with early expectations of few POWs and ending with both sides swamped with them and reduced to holding them in notorious pens like Andersonville in the south and Elmira in the north. Speer provides a history of each camp, however long it was in use; portraits of key figures and units; frequently grisly statistics and descriptions of camp life and conditions that are even grislier; and notes on the present condition of major campsites. No story for the weak-stomached, this is a telling indictment of how negligence led to mass death.