Captivity-The Extreme Circumstance

Captivity-The Extreme Circumstance
Author: U. S. Navy
Publisher: Smashbooks
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2017-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This book is a training manual for US Navy personnel who might be captured and those who help them. Its approach is multi-faceted, practical, legal, psychological and spiritual. It includes stories of those who were prisoners of war. It is designed as a textbook. Since I am intending it for more general purposes, material regarding tests, exams, etc have been removed. Discussion questions have been left in place. Pull quotes from the texts and insets suggesting additional reading in the appendix have been removed as difficult to fit in the e-book content. As noted in the front matter, it is approved for public release, distribution is unlimited. As a US government publication, it is in the public domain.

Captivity: the Extreme Circumstance

Captivity: the Extreme Circumstance
Author: United States United States Navy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-04-12
Genre:
ISBN:

Wars have been fought for many reasons ranging from religious, territorial, and economic reasons, to colonial expansion and sometime even ideologies. In ancient times prisoners were seldom taken and victory often meant that the victor would totally destroy or enslave the defeated party. One historian refers to prisoners, hostages, and captives during this time as merely a "footnote" to the military experience.

Room

Room
Author: Emma Donoghue
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2023-04-06
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1350419168

In this deeply moving and life-affirming tale, a mother must nurture her five-year-old son through an unfathomable situation with only the power of their imagination and their boundless capacity to love. Written for the stage by Academy Award® nominee Emma Donoghue, this unique theatrical adaptation featuring songs and music by Kathryn Joseph and director Cora Bissett takes audiences on a richly emotional journey told through ingenious stagecraft, powerhouse performances, and heart-stopping storytelling. Room reaffirms our belief in humanity and the astounding resilience of the human spirit. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the Broadway premiere in Spring 2023.

Voices from Captivity

Voices from Captivity
Author: Robert C. Doyle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1994
Genre: History
ISBN:

Doyle shows that, though setting and circumstances may change, POW stories share a common structure and are driven by similar themes. Capture, incarceration, isolation, propaganda, torture, capitulation or resistance, death, spiritual quest, escape, liberation and repatriation are recurrent key motifs in these narratives.

You're Lying

You're Lying
Author: Lena Sisco
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-04-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1601633904

Worried about being lied to? Let certified military interrogator and Naval Human Intelligence Officer, Lena Sisco show you how to spot a lie! Lena wrote You're Lying! because no matter what your profession or life circumstances, you need the skills to take control of a situation, detect deception, and reveal the truth. While you probably won't ever have to interrogate a detainee who doesn't want to tell you about an upcoming terrorist attack—as Lena has—You're Lying! will help you deal with that salesperson trying to rip you off, the kid bullying your child who claims innocence, a cheating spouse, or dissembling boss. As the adage says, knowledge is power. Lena interrogated numerous members of Al Qaeda and the Taliban while stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, then taught those skills to Defense Department personnel for years afterward. Her ability to build rapport, accurately read body language, and employ effective questioning techniques led to numerous successes that saved American lives. You will also learn her easy-to-follow five-step program on how to accurately detect verbal (both spoken and written) and non-verbal deceptive tells, how to conduct an effective line of questioning, and what to do after you identify the lies we all face every day. Take the knowledge in You're Lying! and empower yourself. Don't get fooled again.

How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances

How to Survive: Self-Reliance in Extreme Circumstances
Author: John Hudson
Publisher: The Countryman Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-01-05
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1682686469

Gripping stories of near disaster and survival—and the lessons to be gleaned from them—from the British military’s chief survival instructor. When faced with near death, your survival instincts kick in. Instincts can only take you so far, however; it’s preparation and planning that can make the difference between living and dying. In How to Survive, readers will hear harrowing tales of survival and learn from them. These stories are broken down and studied, whether it’s the experience of a teenager hiking to safety as the only survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon, a fisherman drifting for more than 400 days in an open boat across the Pacific Ocean, or a US Air Force fighter pilot forced to eject from his stealth fighter thousands of feet above the earth. John Hudson, a military survivor instructor, introduces the mindset that he feels is imperative for success: the Survival Triangle. This combination of effort, hope, and goals, along with a few practical skills, provides a premade planning template that can be used to jumpstart the whole survival process.

White Captives

White Captives
Author: June Namias
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807876097

White Captives offers a new perspective of Indian-white coexistence on the American frontier through analysis of historical, anthropological, political, and literary materials. --> Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. She compares the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers and examines the narratives of captives Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield.

The Stolen Village

The Stolen Village
Author: Des Ekin
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1847174310

In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates -- some would live out their days chained to the oars as galley slaves, while others would spend long years in the scented seclusion of the harem or within the walls of the Sultan's palace. The old city of Algiers, with its narrow streets, intense heat and lively trade, was a melting pot where the villagers would join slaves and freemen of many nationalities. Only two of them ever saw Ireland again. The Sack of Baltimore was the most devastating invasion ever mounted by Islamist forces on Ireland or England. Des Ekin's exhaustive research illuminates the political intrigues that ensured the captives were left to their fate, and provides a vivid insight into the kind of life that would have awaited the slaves amid the souks and seraglios of old Algiers. The Stolen Village is a fascinating tale of international piracy and culture clash nearly 400 years ago and is the first book to cover this relatively unknown and under-researched incident in Irish history. Shortlisted for the Argosy Irish Nonfiction Book of the Year Award

Caged Heroes

Caged Heroes
Author: Jon Couch
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 471
Release: 2011-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1467060445

Caged Heroes - American POW Experiences from the American Revolution to the Present is snapshot of four hundred years of hostage and prisoner of war experiences. Caged Heroes details prisoners experiences from the moment they are told to put their hands up, through their detentions, and culminating in their releases. It examines the successes and failures of the United States government to prepare its forces for prisoner events; discussing survival schools, rules on how prisoners are told to act while in captivity and glimpses of how being taken prisoner effects the prisoners and guards alike. Using numerous personal interviews and diaries of former prisoners (and their spouses), the reader gets a rare look at the horrors these men and women experienced. Containing an extensive bibliography and complete POW rosters from several conflicts, this book will add to any casual readers knowledge and serve as a top reference for those wanting to understand more about this misunderstood field.