Description: The Least Worst Place Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison Author(s): Karen J. Greenberg Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199557677, 978-0199557677 Synopsis Ever since its foundation in 2002, the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility has become the symbol for many people around the world of all that is wrong with the 'war on terror'. Secretive, inhumane, and illegal by most international standards, it has been seen by many as a testament to American hubris in the post-9/11 era. Yet until now no one has written about the most revealing part of the story - the prison's first 100 days. It was during this time that a group of career military men and women tried to uphold the traditional military codes of honour and justice that informed their training in the face of a far more ruthless, less rule-bound, civilian leadership in the Pentagon. They were defeated. This book tells their story for the first time. It is a tale of how individual officers on the ground at Guantanamo, along with their direct superiors, struggled with their assignment from Washington, only to be unwittingly co-opted into the Pentagon's plan to turn the prison into an interrogation facility operating at the margins of the law and beyond.
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Book Title: The Least Worst Place
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Least Worst Place: How Guantanamo Became the World's Most Notorious Prison
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Subject: Government, History
Item Height: 242 mm
Item Weight: 638 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Karen J. Greenberg
Item Width: 163 mm
Format: Hardcover