Prisoners of war books

867 books were found.

Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki

Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki

Author: Jim Brigginshaw
ISBN: 9781526740106
Format: Hardback
$51.72

A classic first hand account of life and death as a POW on the Burma Railway.  Read More >>

The Kaiser's Escapees: Allied POW escape attempts during the First World War

The Kaiser's Escapees: Allied POW escape attempts during...

Author: Philip Chinnery
ISBN: 9781526701435
Format: Hardback
$52.99

Covers the attempts by Allied PoWs to escape giving a detailed insight into many lives held in captivity  Read More >>

POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I – Searching for America’s Missing Servicemen in the Soviet Union

POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I – Searching for America’s...

Author: Paul M. Cole
ISBN: 9789811071270
Format: Hardback
$580.77

This book is an insider’s account of the search for missing American servicemen who became trapped in the Soviet...  Read More >>

The Soldier Who Came Back

The Soldier Who Came Back

Author: Steve Foster ,  Alan Clark
ISBN: 9781907324239
Format: Hardback
$79.07

In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship that was...  Read More >>

Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport: A Soldier's Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany

Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport: A Soldier's Memoir...

Author: Frank Unwin
ISBN: 9781526714930
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Account of POW life in Italian and German camps and the infamous Winter March.  Read More >>

Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East (Japanese Biological Warfare in China 1933-45)

Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the...

Author: Yang Yan-Jun ,  Tam Yue-Him
ISBN: 9781781556788
Format: Hardback
$51.75

This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of WW2. Manufacture and the...  Read More >>

Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence

Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities...

Author: Ken Miller ,  Kenneth Miller
ISBN: 9781501725883
Format: Paperback
$64.66

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse...  Read More >>

From Normandy to Auschwitz

From Normandy to Auschwitz

Author: Paul Le Goupil
ISBN: 9781526721914
Format: Hardback
$65.99

A superb and moving memoir of the Author s harrowing ordeals.  Read More >>

Le mensonge d'Ulysse & Ulysse trahi par les siens

Le mensonge d'Ulysse & Ulysse trahi par les siens

Author: Paul Rassinier
ISBN: 9781913890223
Format: Hardback
$69.86

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Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863-1866

Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the...

Author: Timothy J. Williams ,  Evan Kutzler
ISBN: 9780820351926
Format: Paperback
$68.51

Presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his...  Read More >>

Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the Writings of Mollie Scollay and Wash Nelson, 1863-1866

Prison Pens: Gender, Memory, and Imprisonment in the...

Author: Timothy J. Williams ,  Evan Kutzler
ISBN: 9780820351933
Format: Hardback
$179.39

Presents the memoir of a captured Confederate soldier in northern Virginia and the letters he exchanged with his...  Read More >>

Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947

Accommodating the King's Hard Bargain: Military Detention...

Author: Graham Wilson
ISBN: 9781925275834
Format: Hardback
$34.99

Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating...  Read More >>

The Kaiser's First POWs

The Kaiser's First POWs

Author: Philip Chinnery
ISBN: 9781473892286
Format: Hardback
$52.99

Features first hand accounts from the Kaiser's POWs & compares the glib nature of propaganda to the real-life evidence...  Read More >>

Contemporary Research and Analysis on the Children of Prisoners: Invisible Children

Contemporary Research and Analysis on the Children of...

Author: Liz Gordon
ISBN: 9781527503595
Format: Hardback
$263.87

In March 2017, researchers, advocates and NGOs from twelve countries came together in Rotorua, New Zealand, for...  Read More >>

Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz

Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz...

Author: Mark Felton
ISBN: 9781785782824
Format: Paperback
$21.99

The little-known true story of one of World War II's greatest escapes, from the author of the bestselling Zero Nights....  Read More >>

Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe in the Second World War

Captives of War: British Prisoners of War in Europe...

Author: Clare Makepeace (Birkbeck, University of London)
ISBN: 9781107145870
Format: Hardback
$103.47

A pioneering study of the experiences and emotional lives of British prisoners of war in Germany and Italy during...  Read More >>

Last of the Kriegies: The Extraordinary True Life Experiences of Five Bomber Command Prisoners of War

Last of the Kriegies: The Extraordinary True Life Experiences...

Author: Reg Barker ,  Charles Clarke
ISBN: 9780993415296
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Prisoners-of-War: pilot...  Read More >>

'The Enemy Within' - German Pow's and Civilians in North Wales During WW1: German Pow's and Civilians in North Wales During Ww1

'The Enemy Within' - German Pow's and Civilians in North...

Author: Robert H. Griffiths
ISBN: 9781845242701
Format: Paperback
$21.99

In this, his third First World War related book, with the emphasis on the northern part of Wales, Robert H. Griffiths...  Read More >>

Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima: The Story of a Japanese POW

Lost at Sea Found at Fukushima: The Story of a Japanese...

Author: Andy Millar
ISBN: 9781473878068
Format: Hardback
$51.72

A little-known story of survival during the Second World War.  Read More >>

The Formosa Fraud: The Story of George Psalmanazar One of the Greatest Charlatans in Literary History

The Formosa Fraud: The Story of George Psalmanazar One...

Author: Graham Earnshaw
ISBN: 9789888422128
Format: Paperback
$47.49

More than 300 years ago, Taiwan was a controversial topic in London thanks to a stupendous fraud perpetrated by...  Read More >>

Captured Germans - British POW Camps in World War I

Captured Germans - British POW Camps in World War I...

Author: Norman Nicol
ISBN: 9781783463480
Format: Hardback
$75.00

First book to cover British POW camps during the Great War. Analyses the treatment of Germans living in Britain...  Read More >>

Voices in Flight: Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World War I

Voices in Flight: Escaping Soldiers and Airmen of World...

Author: Martin W. Bowman
ISBN: 9781473863224
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Acquaints the reader with a multitude of escape tactics, all employed by soldiers and airmen during the Great War....  Read More >>

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