Prisoners of war books

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Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free

Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our...

Author: Frank Walker
ISBN: 9780733637179
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs....  Read More >>

Behind the Wire: Everyday Life as a POW

Behind the Wire: Everyday Life as a POW

Author: Tom Guttridge
ISBN: 9781445673103
Format: Paperback
$43.96

A vivid and fascinating account of life in a German POW camp during the Second World War.  Read More >>

Napoleon's Purgatory: "The Unseen Humanity of the ""Corsican Ogre"" in Fatal Exile (with an introduction by J. David Markham)"

Napoleon's Purgatory: "The Unseen Humanity of the ""Corsican...

Author: Thomas M. Barden
ISBN: 9781622732432
Format: Paperback
$118.80

Napoleon's Purgatory is a work portraying the human side of Napoleon as revealed by those who shared his exile on...  Read More >>

Waterloo Messenger

Waterloo Messenger

Author: William Mahon
ISBN: 9781473870505
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Vivid biography of Henry Percy, the officer who carried the Waterloo Dispatch to London  Read More >>

To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas 1862-65

To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas...

Author: George Levy
ISBN: 9781455623709
Format: Paperback
$76.43

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Albert Schwenn’s Memories of the Waffen-SS: An SS Cavalry Division Veteran Remembers

Albert Schwenn’s Memories of the Waffen-SS: An SS Cavalry...

Author: Rolf Michaelis ,  Albert Schwenn
ISBN: 9780764352973
Format: Hardback
$52.99

"""Originally published as, Als SS-Reiter im Osten... A2016 by Rolf Michaelis, Berlin, Germany."" -- title page...  Read More >>

The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artist and Wartime Witness

The Hope of Another Spring: Takuichi Fujii, Artist and...

Author: Barbara Johns ,  Roger Daniels
ISBN: 9780295999999
Format: Hardback
$80.95

Takuichi Fujii (1891-1964) left Japan in 1906 to make his home in Seattle, where he established a business, started...  Read More >>

For the Glory: The Life of Eric Liddell

For the Glory: The Life of Eric Liddell

Author: Duncan Hamilton
ISBN: 9781784160043
Format: Paperback
$24.99

No one has embodied the ideals of the Olympic movement quite like Eric Liddell, star of the Oscar-winning film Chariots...  Read More >>

British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany

British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany...

Author: Oliver Wilkinson (University of Wolverhampton)
ISBN: 9781107199422
Format: Hardback
$173.36

Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official...  Read More >>

The Cost of Courage

The Cost of Courage

Author: Charles Kaiser
ISBN: 9781590518397
Format: Paperback
$32.99

This heroic true story of the three youngest children of a bourgeois Catholic family who worked together in the...  Read More >>

1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

1,000 Days on the River Kwai: The Secret Diary of a...

Author: H. C. Owtram
ISBN: 9781473897809
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Superb example of the ever popular Japanese POW memoir genre.  Read More >>

Conjuror on the Kwai: The Incredible Life of Fergus Anckorn

Conjuror on the Kwai: The Incredible Life of Fergus...

Author: Peter Fyans
ISBN: 9781473898042
Format: Paperback
$26.99

The Conjuror on the Kwai is the incredibly moving story of Gus Anckorn, a British soldier who was captured by the...  Read More >>

A True Story of the Great Escape: A young Australian POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII

A True Story of the Great Escape: A young Australian...

Author: Louise Williams
ISBN: 9781760296148
Format: Paperback
$29.99

The first book to tell the story of an Australian POW in the famous Great Escape from Stalag Luft III in World War...  Read More >>

Prisoners and Escape WWI

Prisoners and Escape WWI

Author: Esther Bilton ,  Rachel Bilton
ISBN: 9781473867093
Format: Paperback
$34.99

First-hand accounts written shortly after the event.  Read More >>

Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz

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

Author: Mark Felton
ISBN: 9781785782190
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The Monuments Men meets The Great Escape in this cinematic, rip-roaring WWII breakout history thriller featuring...  Read More >>

Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolini’s Colditz

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

Author: Mark Felton
ISBN: 9781785781186
Format: Hardback
$39.99

The Monuments Men meets The Great Escape in this cinematic, rip-roaring WWII breakout history thriller featuring...  Read More >>

Allied POWs in German Hands 1914 - 1918

Allied POWs in German Hands 1914 - 1918

Author: David Bilton
ISBN: 9781473867017
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Written by experienced author covering a topic rarely written about.  Read More >>

Surviving the Japanese Onslaught: An RAF POW in Burma

Surviving the Japanese Onslaught: An RAF POW in Burma...

Author: William Albert Tate
ISBN: 9781473880733
Format: Hardback
$59.99

An honest and frank first-hand account of life as a Japanese Prisoner of War.  Read More >>

Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy: A Childhood in the Dutch East Indies, 1933–1946

Camp Life Is Paradise for Freddy: A Childhood in the...

Author: Fred Lanzing ,  Marjolijn de Jager
ISBN: 9780896803084
Format: Paperback
$71.15

In this lyrical but controversial memoir of his childhood in a Japanese internment camp for Dutch colonialists during...  Read More >>

Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers in Nazi Germany, 1939-1945

Wearing the Letter P: Polish Women as Forced Laborers...

Author: Sophie Hodorowicz Knab
ISBN: 9780781813594
Format: Paperback
$52.67

An unflinching, detailed portrait of the Polish women who were forced to labor in Nazi Germany and subjected to...  Read More >>

Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape from Siberia in 1915

Eleven Months to Freedom: A German POW's Unlikely Escape...

Author: Dwight R. Messimer
ISBN: 9781682470657
Format: Hardback
$89.63

Eleven Months to Freedom recounts the daring World War I escape of Germanmidshipman Erich Killinger. Falsely accused...  Read More >>

As Good As Dead: The True WWII Story of Eleven American POWs Who Escaped from Palawan Island

As Good As Dead: The True WWII Story of Eleven American...

Author: Stephen L Moore ,  Stephen L. Moore
ISBN: 9780399583551
Format: Hardback
$55.00

In the tradition of Unbroken, a dramatic story of American POWs in the Pacific and their incredible escape from...  Read More >>

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