Prisoners of war books

Offers a rare primary document from an important moment in history: the Spanish War of Independence, which culminated...  Read More >>

The dramatic story of the Newton brothers, SOE agents in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War  Read More >>

Homecomings tells the story of late-returning Japanese soldiers and their struggle to adapt to a newly peaceful...  Read More >>

The Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East...  Read More >>

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After the fall of Singapore in 1942, the conquering Japanese Army transferred some 2500 British and Australian prisoners...  Read More >>

The most comprehensive account of the Cannock Chase prisoner of war camp ever published.  Read More >>

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In 1914, at the outbreak of the First World War, several of Britain's greatest footballers were interned in a brutal...  Read More >>

Drawing on newly declassified archival materials from China, Taiwan, and the United States and interviews with surviving...  Read More >>

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A compelling and harrowing true story by a 96 year old Welshman who endured the horrors of Auschwitz.  Read More >>

Examining how America's founding generation grappled with the problems posed by prisoners of war, Captives of Liberty...  Read More >>

Surviving the Great War is the first detailed analysis of Australians in German captivity in WW1. By placing the...  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 Crack Era: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Kevin Chiles chronicles one of the most treacherous periods in...  Read More >>

This first in-depth study of Allied internment compares the detainment of Germans by all four occupying powers in...  Read More >>

More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World...  Read More >>

This book describes the observations of the Red Cross International Committee who visited the camps of the Turkish...  Read More >>

Eyewitness account by a German soldier of seven years in Soviet captivity after the Battle of Stalingrad.  Read More >>

Despite the harsh treatment that can befall collaborators in armed conflict, and despite collaboration often not...  Read More >>

The internment camp on Rottnest Island, established for enemy aliens from Germany and Austria-Hungary during World...  Read More >>

The author spent many hours listening to her mother-in-law recount, in vivid detail, memories of her childhood days...  Read More >>

Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story...  Read More >>

A little known story of two Australian battalions abandoned in Java during World War II and the heroes who kept...  Read More >>