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Prisoner-of-war camps

LC control no.sh2008005971
Topical headingPrisoner-of-war camps
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Variant(s)P.O.W. camps
POW camps
Prisoners of war--Housing
See alsonames of individual camps and/or subdivision Prisoners and prisons under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons
Military camps
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Prisons
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Scope noteHere are entered works on prisoner-of-war camps treated collectively.
Found inWork cat.: Swords into plowshares : Minnesota's POW camps during World War II, 2000.
Public administration of prisoner of war camps in America since the Revolutionary War, 1980.
World War II P.O.W. and internment camps, 1980.
The Oxford essential dictionary of the U.S. military, 2001: (prisoner of war camp: an installation established for internment and administration of prisoners of war)
Wikipedia, July 25, 2008: (prisoner-of-war camp: site for containment of enemy combatants captured in time of war)