Prisoners of war books

One night in 1944, eighty airmen escaped a German POW compound in Poland. The event became known as “The Great Escape.”...  Read More >>

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Bigger than The Great Escape. The story of the first successful mass tunnel escape from a POW camp in First World...  Read More >>

Based on a series of one hundred pen and ink drawings by Captain Benjamin Comeau, a POW at Camp #1 in Korea from...  Read More >>

Following the North Korean assault on the Republic of Korea in June of 1950, the invaders captured more than a thousand...  Read More >>

The thrilling true story of what happened at prison camp Oflag VI-B on 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night'.  Read More >>

The thrilling true story of what happened at prison camp Oflag VI-B on 30 August 1942 - 'Zero Night'.  Read More >>

The story of Ted Taylor, 1st Battalion, The Rifle Brigade, was sent to France in May 1940. Outnumbered by at least...  Read More >>

The United States' use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques during the ""War on Terror"" has sparked fervent...  Read More >>

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Drawing on oral history of female Palestinian political detainees, this book analyses their anti-colonial struggles...  Read More >>

During the Civil War, 410,000 people were held as prisoners of war on both sides. With resources strained by the...  Read More >>

How one little girl survived a Japanese Prisoner of War camp. A powerful true story.  Read More >>

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Stalag VIII-B, Colditz, these names are synonymous with POWs in the Second World War. Gloucestershire was home to...  Read More >>

Examines the archaeological, historical, sociological, political, psychological, and cultural aspects and impacts...  Read More >>

A powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war. Award-winning author Anthony Hill takes us into...  Read More >>

In this unique book, Charles Rollings identifies almost every one of the men who entered North Compound from the...  Read More >>

The story of Thomas Williams, born in Penmachno, Gwynedd, who worked as a tailor until he joined the Liverpool Scottish...  Read More >>

The extraordinary and moving story of professional footballer Johnny Sherwood's survival after being taken prisoner...  Read More >>

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A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared...  Read More >>

During WWI hundreds of thousands of Germans faced incarceration in hundreds of camps on the British mainland. This...  Read More >>

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After 70 years in a drawer a battered log book reveals its secrets through over a 100 hand-written stories. In 1942,...  Read More >>