Prisoners of war books

In contrast to the plethora of works focusing on the tragic loss of human lives during the First World War, little...  Read More >>

The second instalment of the iconic memoirs of one of the first female fighters of the PKK  Read More >>

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Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, British soldier Arthur Dodd thought his life would end in...  Read More >>

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The extraordinary story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war camps not once but...  Read More >>

An inspiring and thrilling account of a British soldier  Read More >>

Students, military historians, and casual readers will all find this compelling collection useful in learning about...  Read More >>

A classic WW2 POW memoir of capture and escape.  Read More >>

The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War from 1918-1920 forms the backdrop to this extraordinary story of...  Read More >>

The story of Allied servicemen who were held by the Japanese at the Mukden POW camp in northeast China during the...  Read More >>

The full story of the White Buses rescue missions out of German camps.  Read More >>

First hand accounts of 3 years captivity in Singapore, the Burma Railway and on Hellships""  Read More >>

An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, between two young people from opposite sides...  Read More >>

Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania examines the World War II experience of 1,200 Italian soldiers, detained...  Read More >>

Dramatic and exciting account of how twenty-five determined German U-Boat crewmen tunneled from American POW camp,...  Read More >>

Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official...  Read More >>

Nazi concentration camps are by no means the only examples of these 'extreme institutions'; Dan Stone sets out the...  Read More >>

Details of life in a Nazi POW camp.  Read More >>

The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ during the Second World War was arguably the greatest stain on the Allied record...  Read More >>

The true story of an American paratrooper who had a unique encounter during Operation Market Garden and his experiences...  Read More >>

Key work built on interviews with dozens of former prisoners and relatives of the 50 prisoners of The Great Escape...  Read More >>

Photographic history of the POW camp that inspired the film The Great Escape.  Read More >>

The human story of Cambridgeshire’s Napoleonic War prison  Read More >>