Prisoners of war books

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Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782

Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War...

Author: Carl P. Borick
ISBN: 9781611170399
Format: Hardback
$303.57

Borick's careful reading of the pension files reveals much about what men went through and how they endured in captivity....  Read More >>

Unbroken

Unbroken

Author: Laura Hillenbrand
ISBN: 9780007378036
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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On Radji Beach

On Radji Beach

Author: Ian W. Shaw
ISBN: 9780330404259
Format: Paperback
$24.99

On 12 February 1942, Singapore was just days away from its fall to the Japanese. As the city burned, hundreds of...  Read More >>

The Sportsmen of Changi

The Sportsmen of Changi

Author: Kevin Blackburn
ISBN: 9781742233024
Format: Paperback
$51.62

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Unshackled Spirit:: The Secret Purchase of a Spitfire by RAF Prisoners of War

Unshackled Spirit:: The Secret Purchase of a Spitfire...

Author: Colin Pateman
ISBN: 9781781551912
Format: Hardback
$51.75

Unshackled Spirit reveals detailed accounts from incarcerated prisoners of war in WWII. Individual and personal...  Read More >>

Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi

Prisoner of War: Six Years in Hanoi

Author: John M. McGrath
ISBN: 9781591145073
Format: Paperback
$32.99

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Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam: Policies of the Vietnamese Government Concerning Captured and Unaccounted for United States Soldiers, 1969-1994

Imprisoned or Missing in Vietnam: Policies of the Vietnamese...

Author: Lewis M. Stern
ISBN: 9780786467181
Format: Paperback
$43.95

This examines Hanoi's policy on American MIAs and POWs from the Paris peace talks to the U.S. government's decision...  Read More >>

Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW: Conjuror on the Kwai

Captivity, Slavery and Survival as a Far East POW: Conjuror...

Author: Peter Fyans
ISBN: 9781848846227
Format: Hardback
$51.72

This is the story of Gus Anckorn, a British soldier who was captured by the Japanese and held for over three and...  Read More >>

Lost in Action: A World War II Soldier's Account of Capture on Bataan and Imprisonment by the Japanese

Lost in Action: A World War II Soldier's Account of...

Author: Dick Bilyeu
ISBN: 9780786467242
Format: Paperback
$38.50

""Lost in action,"" a term used to account for soldiers last seen in combat but not identified as killed or captured,...  Read More >>

The Union Prison at Fort Delaware: A Perfect Hell on Earth

The Union Prison at Fort Delaware: A Perfect Hell on...

Author: Brian Temple
ISBN: 9780786466290
Format: Paperback
$43.95

By the fall of 1863, about 12,000 soldiers, officers, and political prisoners were being held in the Union prison...  Read More >>

Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese

Real Tenko: Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners...

Author: Mark Felton
ISBN: 9781848845503
Format: Paperback
$65.87

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The Accidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany

The Accidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Alone...

Author: Carolyn Gossage
ISBN: 9781848859913
Format: Hardback
$51.72

In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider. The...  Read More >>

Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia

Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia

Author: Kevin Blackburn (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) ,  Karl Hack (Open University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415690058
Format: Paperback
$92.99

Using archival, oral and literary sources, Blackburn and Hack, along with an impressive team of international contributors,...  Read More >>

Within Changi's Walls: A Record of Civilian Internment in World War II

Within Changi's Walls: A Record of Civilian Internment...

Author: George L. Peet
ISBN: 9789814328852
Format: Paperback
$38.79

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In the Lion's Shadow

In the Lion's Shadow

Author: Fariborz L. Mokhtari
ISBN: 9780752463704
Format: Hardback
$39.99

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The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror

The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners...

Author: Robert C. Doyle ,  Arnold P. Krammer
ISBN: 9780813134604
Format: Paperback
$65.87

The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from...  Read More >>

Escape to Rossano

Escape to Rossano

Author: Gordon Lett
ISBN: 9781848326217
Format: Hardback
$57.99

In July 1942, Major Gordon Lett was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk. After his escape, rather than return to...  Read More >>

Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence

Sandakan: A Conspiracy of Silence

Author: Lynette Ramsay Silver
ISBN: 9781863514248
Format: Paperback
$39.99

The story of the Sandakan prisoner of war camp during the closing years of World War II. Of the 1793 Australian...  Read More >>

Stolen Childhoods: The Untold Story of the Children Interned by the Japanese in the Second World War

Stolen Childhoods: The Untold Story of the Children...

Author: Nicola Tyrer
ISBN: 9780297858782
Format: Hardback
$120.78

The extraordinary stories of the children interned by the Japanese in the Second World War  Read More >>

The Hard Way: Surviving Shamshuipo PoW Camp 1941-45

The Hard Way: Surviving Shamshuipo PoW Camp 1941-45...

Author: Major Victor Stanley Ebbage ,  Andrew Robertshaw
ISBN: 9780752460642
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An extraordinary story of the endurance of the human spirit  Read More >>

Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners

Andersonvilles of the North: The Myths and Realities...

Author: James M. Gillispie
ISBN: 9781574413113
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Argues that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed....  Read More >>

The Last of the Human Freedoms

The Last of the Human Freedoms

Author: Keren Chiaroni
ISBN: 9781869508739
Format: Paperback
$31.00

When Kiwi airman John Sanderson was shot down over Laines-aux-Bois in May 1944, an ordinary French family chose...  Read More >>

Barbed Wire Disease: British & German Prisoners of War, 1914-19

Barbed Wire Disease: British & German Prisoners of War,...

Author: John Yarnall
ISBN: 9780752456904
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The political and diplomatic efforts to abide by the new rules are examined in detail, along with the use of reprisals...  Read More >>

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