combatants and noncombatants (international law)

Human rights lawyer Michael Ratner and political journalist Ellen Ray offer an inside look at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station and the creation of a network of United States detention camps around the world.

Recounts the experiences of civilians whose lives were disrupted by America's entry into wars in the pre-Civil War era, exploring how American citizens dealt with shortages, privations, and anxieties that went along with America's involvement in wars from the Revolutionary War to the Mexican War.

Recounts the events of April 26, 1937, when the ancient Basque hilltop town of Guernica was destroyed by German Condor bombs in what is the century's first instance of strategic, total warfare.