Prisoners of war books

Opened in the spring of 1942 to house captured Allied airmen, Stalag Luft III at Sagan was planned and built to...  Read More >>

Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travellers on their way...  Read More >>

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At the Emperors Pleasure follows the young couple Christopher and Topsy Man through the savage battle for Hong Kong...  Read More >>

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Shortly after the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941, over 70,000 American and Filipino servicemen were...  Read More >>

This is the story of the brave civilians who helped Allied airmen and other evaders to escape from occupied Europe...  Read More >>

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The first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British...  Read More >>

The one unresolved issue of the Pacific War is the treatment of our prisoners of war, during and after World War...  Read More >>

Focuses on 600 Confederate officers, made prisoners of war, who were dispatched to Charleston Harbor to act as human...  Read More >>

The story of one man’s escape from Stalin’s genocide to heroism in the skies  Read More >>

The Lost Years tells the story of Roger Rothwell, captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 during the fall...  Read More >>

Blighty or Bust is Private Raymond Bailey’s own account of his dramatic escape in 1940 from a Nazi prisoner-of-war...  Read More >>

One woman's experience of Fascism in Spain, France and Germany  Read More >>

""Explores the experiences and memories of the 1.5 million German POWs held by the Soviet Union in World War II...  Read More >>

A Pennsylvanian draftee goes to war with the 805th Tank Destroyer Battalion, and ends up spending two years in POW...  Read More >>

An explosive tale of courage, survival and the incredible 500 Indian prisoners of war who escaped the clutches of...  Read More >>

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The dramatic story of the Newton brothers, SOE agents in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War  Read More >>

"""Weaving together diary entries, photographs, clandestine correspondences, and haiku, psychotherapist and activist...  Read More >>

The inspiring story of the nursing hero who survived a wartime massacre and dedicated her life to saving others...  Read More >>

During the Second World War over 200,000 British prisoners of war were detained by the Third Reich. A large proportion...  Read More >>

Anette Hoffmann examines the archive of stories and songs by WWI African POWs held in Germany to gain new understandings...  Read More >>

Anette Hoffmann examines the archive of stories and songs by WWI African POWs held in Germany to gain new understandings...  Read More >>