"Several of the 19th Military History Symposium's veteran participants were themselves prisoners of war. Their experiences... recorded and placed in context... have become a valuable part of this volume"--Foreword.

Prologue / Vance R. Skarstedt and Grant T. Weller -- Representing captivity / Elliott Gruner -- No man's land / William Marvel -- The promptings of humanity / Richard B. Speed -- Resistance in Japanese prison camps during World War II / Robert S. La Forte -- For you the war is over / Philip D. Caine -- Yanks in the Great Escape / Arthur A. Durand -- The treatment of prisoners of war since World War II / Frederick Kiley -- Evolution of the code of conduct / W. Hays Parks -- Spouses and families of repatriated American prisoners of war / Elizabeth A. Thompson and Hamilton I McCubbin -- Making experience count / Robert C. Doyle -- The American POW experience in Iraq, 1991 /Thomas E. Griffith, Jr. -- Epilogue / Vance R. Skarstedt.