Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
book
BookPrinted Material
Author Bravin, Jess.

Title The terror courts : rough justice at Guantanamo Bay / Jess Bravin.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]

Item Status

Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  KF7661 .B73 2013    Available  ---
Description 440 pages, 8 pages of plates ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Tater -- Military order -- Welcome to the dungeon -- Survival, evasion, resistance, and escape -- London calling -- The ides of march -- The Nuremberg defense -- The man from Al Qaeda -- Habeas corpus -- Mr. Bean -- A twentieth hijacker -- The marble palace -- The vampire killers -- The kangaroo skinner -- Material supporter -- Turning the page.
Summary Offers the first inside account of America's continuing legal experiment at Guantanamo Bay--a permanent, offshore justice system designed to assure convictions by denying constitutional rights.
Provenance Gift of Paul and Mary Haas.
Subject War crime trials -- United States.
War crime trials.
United States.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.
Military courts -- Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
Military courts.
Cuba -- Guantánamo Bay Naval Base.
ISBN 9780300189209 (clothbound)
0300189206 (clothbound)