Robert C. Doyle, professor of history at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, is the author of A Prisoner’s Duty: Great Escapes in U.S. Military History and Voices from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narrative. He has been a history consultant on multiple films and documentaries, including Hart’s War (2002). He lives in Steubenville, Ohio.
" "The Enemy in Our Hands represents a significant contribution to
the study of American military history and superb starting point
for scholars interested in America's treatment of its enemies."--
Military Review" --
"" The Enemy in Our Hands exmaines American actions regarding POWs
from George Washington's leadership in the American Revolution
through both World Wars to the present." -- The Lone Star Book
Review" --
""[Doyle] examines American actions regarding POWs from George
Washington's leadership through both World Wars to the present."--
Tucson Citizen" --
""[The Enemy in Our Hands] is supported by sound scholarship but
written in clear, non-pedantic language appropriate to its
remarkably insightful and balanced analysis.... A definitive single
volume."-- Proceedings of the US Naval Institute" --
""A superb study that examines EPWs, interned enemy aliens, and
American political prisoners with valuable primary documents and
statistics in the extensive appendix. This work will generate
debate on the definition of POWs since Doyle has broadened the
context to include enemy nationals and political prisoners. By
analyzing a wider range of security threats, Doyle is not limited
by conventional standards in framing the debate regarding the
future development of national policies and international law to
deal with non-state combatants." --American Historical Review"
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""A thorough treatment of the subject...highly readable and
relevant."--Teaching History" --
""As current events continually shape the context of modern
warfare, Doyle's work will assist American consideration of how its
treatment of EPWs defines national character."-- Franciscan Way"
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""Brings together a vast quantity of mostly secondary sources to
describe the way in which the United States has treated POW's over
approximately 240 years.... Fills a void that has existed for many
years."-- On Point" --
""Casting a wide net, this book delivers a scholarly, lucid
overview of America's handling of POWs of all stripes: military,
civilian, and irregular.... Doyle delves deeply, and military buffs
will consider it the definitive treatment."-- Publishers Weekly"
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""Comprehensive, covering all of the expected prisoner of war
populations, as well as the perhaps less expected topics of
Loyalist and Quaker prisoners during the American Revolution,
Native Americans as POWs, the Spanish American War and the War in
the Philippines, domestic internees during World War II, the
Phoenix program in Vietnam, and prisoners of the 'War on
Terror.'"-- Book News" --
""Contains an informative chapter on the Vietnam War. Doyle shows
that with some notable exceptions, Americans in Vietnam treated
enemy prisoners in accordance with Geneva Convention rules."-- VVA
Veteran" --
""Doyle provides excellent context for non-expert readers... the
importance of captives to the outcome, and a vivid picture of life
in captivity."-- Choice" --
""Doyle's comprehensive and balanced analysis of the ways America
has treated enemy prisoners of war should be required reading for
anyone addressing that controversial subject. Thoroughly researched
and clearly written, incorporating civilian as well as military
prisoners, covering a spectrum from Loyalists to American Indians
to Germans and Japanese, The Enemy in Our Hands offers a unique
perspective on who and what Americans are."--Dennis Showalter,
author of Patton and Rommel: Men of War in the Twentieth Century"
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""Given the worldwide controversy over America's handling of
captured personnel during its recent military incursions in Iraq
and Afghanistan, Robert C. Doyle's The Enemy in Our Hands provides
a much-needed, scholarly perspective on this country's historical
treatment of prisoners of war, or "enemy combatants," as President
George W. Bush referred to them. Because so much of this material
has not previously appeared in print, The Enemy in Our Hands
reinforces Doyle's reputation as America's foremost scholar on
POWs, past and present."--Lewis H. Carlson, author of Remembered
Prisoners of a Forgotten War: An Oral History of Korean War POWs
and We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History of World War II
American and German Prisoners of War." --
""Incredibly informative and insightful, Robert Doyle reveals
fascinating truths about the treatment of enemy POWs. I now realize
just how lucky I am to have survived almost six years in the hands
of my brutal North Vietnamese captors. No nation, during any war,
has extended such humane treatment to POWs as by the United
States."--Captain Mike McGrath, USN (ret.), author of Prisoner of
War -- Six Years in Hanoi, and former president of NAM-POWS, Inc."
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""Show[s] the improvised and inconsistent nature of US policies in
most past wars....Doyle emphasizes individual experience in the
cultural history of war and relies more on personal interviews. He
also places heavier emphasis on civilian captives and methods of
dealing with wartime disloyalty. Highly recommended."-- Choice"
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""The moral and historical issues here will be of interest to
military students, historians, political scientists, ethicists, and
similar scholars.... Strongly recommended."-- Library Journal"
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""The Enemy in Our Hands is an insightful and balanced work of
history, supported by sound scholarship and written in clear,
non-pedantic language. It gives the reader a comprehensive review
of American foreign policy over six decades, giving a guided tour
of America's battles and wars to get to the heart of the treatment
of prisoners by the United States and, collaterally, the treatment
of American prisoners by other countries."-- Naval History" --
""This is a must read, a valuable resource, and an outstanding
documentation of prisoners in American wars."--Journal of America's
Military Past" --
""With the very definition of 'torture' subject to partisan
politics, [Doyle] is content to objectively relay the precedents
that shaped America's treatment of captured enemies without
pointing fingers or making sweeping judgments.... What readers are
left with is a lively primer illuminating the people, events and
prejudices that have shaped the government's handling of prisoners
of war and homegrown political dissidents over time."--
Miller-McCune" --
"The lesson... is clear: an improvised POW policy for a conflict
with an irregular foe leads into a legal and ethical quandry." --
Joint Forces Quarterly
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