Prisoners of war books

On 6 April 1943, Ian Reid, an officer in the Black Watch, was wounded and captured in Tunisia and sent off to an...  Read More >>

Neville Wylie examines Britain's diplomatic efforts to safeguard its prisoners of war in Germany between 1939 and...  Read More >>

Early research on the Holocaust was characterized by studies of the extermination of the Jews without other victims...  Read More >>

Between 1941 and 1945 a number of Kiwi combatants found themselves loose behind enemy lines in occupied southern...  Read More >>

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1.5 million Polish civilians - arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion...  Read More >>

* An extraordinary and moving tale by an ex-POW and last surviving member of the Gordon Highlanders regiment that...  Read More >>

The story of the POW camp that never was. Camp 4-B in the town of Naoetsu was the prison for some 300 Australian...  Read More >>

A collection of memoirs from Soviet gulag that lends a voice to the many ordinary people - including a circus performer,...  Read More >>

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This is the moving story of a young man who found himself along with thousands of his comrades in the nightmare...  Read More >>

This book details the treatment of Allied service-women, female civilians and local women by the Japanese occupation...  Read More >>

Gunther Pluschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history – during the First World War he was...  Read More >>

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After his surrender at Fort Buford in what is now North Dakota, the United States Army transported Sitting Bull...  Read More >>

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This is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran...  Read More >>

A World War II escape story, as exciting as a Hollywood movie.  Read More >>

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This is the story of a young man thrust into the Royal Navy in distant Hong Kong. He relates some of the humorous...  Read More >>

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Sir Ernest Edward Weary Dunlop was appointed a surgeon to the Emergency Medical Unit in World War II, spending time...  Read More >>