Prisoners of war books

Exploring the experiences of prisoners and internees of the Second World War all around the world, through the records...  Read More >>

Errett Lujan served during World War II with the US Army 200th/515th Coast Artillery Regiment in the Philippines....  Read More >>

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER,...  Read More >>

'An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage' Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER,...  Read More >>

"""A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War...  Read More >>

Chronicles the World War II POW program in Kentucky and the vital contributions the Bluegrass State made to Allied...  Read More >>

An unusual account of the escape of a member of the Royal Flying Corps in the Great War.  Read More >>

Shortlisted for the 2024 British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize An estimated 300,000 people have been detained...  Read More >>

Graphic personal accounts of the Allied Landings and advance to Germany.  Read More >>

Details background life in pre-War Malaya and the Japanese invasion of the Malay peninsula in December 1941 leading...  Read More >>

Jack Seed's first hand account of the defence of Crete during the Balkan Campaign of 1941 is told here for the first...  Read More >>

A story of suffering and endurance and how the central character overcame hardships as a prisoner during the Second...  Read More >>

An astonishing and moving true story of captivity, endurance and survival against all the odds at the hands of Islamic...  Read More >>

'The Dark Side of the Sky' describes with dramatic tension and sympathetic humour the gap between a young man's...  Read More >>

Between 1946 and 1966 large numbers of displaced persons (DPs) came to Australia to escape the horrors of war-torn...  Read More >>

The chain of events that led to the death of over 2,500 Prisoners of War – one of Australia’s worst wartime tragedies...  Read More >>

A collection of writings from one of the anti-Apartheid struggle's major revolutionary public intellectuals  Read More >>

A compelling insight into one Far East ex POW survivor's mental health and terrible suffering, long after he returned...  Read More >>

The book describes the history of the Viennese ports before the expansion of Albern into a grain port from 1938...  Read More >>

The poems collected here were written by twenty-two poets, who produced hundreds of poems whilst detained in the...  Read More >>

While the taking of hostages was common during the Civil War, it was unique for an individual state government to...  Read More >>

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This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain,...  Read More >>

Unseen photographs of prisoners of war in both the German and Far East theatres of war.Exclusive, never-seen diary...  Read More >>

In re-creating the daily lives of War Relocation Authority attorneys, Eric Muller adds colour, nuance, and pathos...  Read More >>