Prisoners of war books

The incredible story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by ordinary men who ultimately...  Read More >>

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Describes in detail the concentration camps run in Scotland, which held Jews, communists and homosexuals.  Read More >>

Controversial and shocking expos of mistreatment and killing of Allied POWs by their North Korean and Chinese captors....  Read More >>

Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five...  Read More >>

Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story of captivity, violence and race  Read More >>

Argues that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides...  Read More >>

This stirring biography reveals the full story of a remarkable man who survived against the odds to save countless...  Read More >>

The true story of a son who discovered the unspoken truths of his parents lives after their deaths, including the...  Read More >>

Describes the horrific ordeal of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders at the hands of the Japanese....  Read More >>

The Romanian artist George Tomaziu expected to be imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements during the Second...  Read More >>

Far from being restricted to barbed wire camps or within the borders of a single nation, the detention of German...  Read More >>

Far from being restricted to barbed wire camps or within the borders of a single nation, the detention of German...  Read More >>

This is Lieutenant Colonel Kappe's account of what he and the many other PoWs of F' Force endured from May to October...  Read More >>

Through the words of the Medical Officers themselves, some of the detail of what really happened on the Death Railway,...  Read More >>

The inside story of Israel’s secret negotiations to bring home their soldiers taken hostage by terrorist groups....  Read More >>

An exceptional and unique personal account of brutal Japanese captivity and heart-rending comradeship by a natural...  Read More >>

Three weeks after Imperial Japan’s surrender, five men dressed in baggy khaki uniforms stared at the camera.  Read More >>

This book explores the history of Dartmoor War Prison (1805-16). This is not the well-known Victorian convict prison,...  Read More >>

A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of...  Read More >>

This is the previously untold story of the brave Lancastrians who endured the Fall of Singapore, and their subsequent...  Read More >>

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Moving beyond conventional assessments of POW treatment which have focused on the development of policy, diplomatic...  Read More >>

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The harrowing story of a POW imprisoned for 3 1/2 years surviving on rations of boiled rice, insects, rats and banana...  Read More >>