Marcel Berni is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He specialises in the history of the Cold War. His dissertation on the treatment of communist captives during Vietnam's American War has won the André Corvisier Prize.Tamara Cubito is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Swiss Military Academy at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She recently completed her PhD on the treatment of enemy aliens in the British colonies during the First World War.

“The contribution of this book to the field of war captivity studies is much welcomed. Not only do the chapters discuss the well-known cases of the two world wars, but they also include other armed conflicts that are rarely explored by captivity historians. The book has the great merit of showing that captivity and internment policies during the twentieth century were deployed in different areas around the world ... .” (Jean-Michel Turcotte, H-Net Reviews, h-net.org, May, 2024)

• Chapter 1. The Diplomatic Role of Transnational Actors in Wartime Captivity; Marcel Berni, Tamara Cubito.- Chapter 2. “Any unfavourable condition or untoward circumstance will receive immediate attention”: American Consuls’ Visits to British Colonial Internment Camps of the Great War; Tamara Cubito.- Chapter 3. “Heraus mit unseren Gefangenen!” The German Home Front and the International Campaign for Prisoner of War Repatriation, 1918-1919; Brian K. Feltman.- Chapter 4. An Uneasy Balance: International Relief Efforts in the Chaco War; Robert Niebuhr.- Chapter 5. Japanese Civilian Internees in New Caledonia: A Gap Between the Protecting Powers and the ICRC; Rowena Ward.- Chapter 6. Japanese Prisoners of War, the American-Soviet Conflict, and the Role of Repatriated War Veterans in the Early Cold War in East Asia; Frank Jacob.- Chapter 7. The ICRC and Communist Captives during Vietnam’s American War; Marcel Berni.- Chapter 8. Biafra’s Captives: The “Oilmen Incident” and International Diplomacy in the Nigerian Civil War; Onianwa Oluchuchukwu Ignatus.- Chapter 9. 90,000 Prisoners of War as Bargaining Chip: Bangladesh, India and Pakistan 1972 to 1974; Amit Das Gupta.