Prisoners of war books

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding...  Read More >>

Materialising Post-9/11 Security is the first full-length study of the controversial U.S. military detention and...  Read More >>

Classic example of popular Japanese POW genre.  Read More >>

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The inspirational memoir of a seriously wounded and blinded POW who was later repatriated in 1943.  Read More >>

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison,...  Read More >>

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained...  Read More >>

US Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring...  Read More >>

A study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, this is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh's earlier groundbreaking...  Read More >>

A captivating memoir of the last US Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. A narrative of courage,...  Read More >>

"Moving seamlessly between family and communal history, Setsuko's Secret offers a clear window into a """"camp life""""...  Read More >>

This autobiographical novel written in 1982, takes the reader back to WW2 to experience life behind the barbed wire...  Read More >>

Tie-in book to major BBC1 series to be screened during the Autumn. Interest in WW2 continues to grow. New light...  Read More >>

What was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study...  Read More >>

Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn’t a matter of Japanese...  Read More >>

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever.  Read More >>

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

A first-hand witness account of the fall of Singapore to the Japanese army in World War 2, to be followed by endured...  Read More >>

At PG 49, a prison camp at Fontanellato a bugle sounded the signal for the biggest mass escape by Allied PoWs in...  Read More >>

How an American soldier saved his comrades from being enslaved by the Nazis in the dying days of World War Two....  Read More >>

The story of Herbert Martin Massey CBE, DSO, MC, from his flying days in the First World War to life as a prisoner-of-war...  Read More >>

Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer...  Read More >>

Rare memoir of a Soviet soldier's escape from a concentration camp. First-hand record of a daily struggle for survival....  Read More >>

Graphic personal accounts of the Allied Landings and advance to Germany. 1 Suffolk had an enviable fighting record....  Read More >>

What was it really like behind the forbidding barbed wire in those ancient Nissan Huts? How much has it changed...  Read More >>