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American Torture : From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, Hardback Book

American Torture : From the Cold War to Abu Ghraib and Beyond Hardback

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George W. Bush calls them an 'alternative set of procedures', vital tools needed 'to protect the American people and our allies'.

American Torture reveals how torture became standard practice in today's War on Terror. 'Tools' including being forced standing for up to forty hours, sleep deprivation for weeks on end and dousing naked prisoners with ice are undeniably torture, and they are used by the United States of America.

Long before Abu Ghraib became a household name, the US military and CIA used torture with impunity at home and abroad.

Billions of dollars were spent during the Cold War studying, refining, then teaching these techniques to American interrogators and to foreign officers charged with keeping Communism at bay.

This book writes the history of these methods and their invention and adoption by US military personnel.

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