Prisoners of war books

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

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

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

In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote...  Read More >>

Memoir of U.S. Army private from Chicago who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, World War II, and was captured by...  Read More >>

'Victor Gregg is the most remarkable spokesman for the war generation' Dan Snow In Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut...  Read More >>

Honest account by one of only three successful escapees from Stalag Luft III.  Read More >>

This is the memoirs of Bram Vanderstok, number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft...  Read More >>

Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp...  Read More >>

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This book discusses the experience of French colonial prisoners of war captured by Nazi Germany during World War...  Read More >>

Experiences of people involved in all aspects of the POW camp system across Britain, Italian, German and Ukrainian...  Read More >>

This official account of this prisoner of war camp was written for the War Office at the end of the war, drawing...  Read More >>

A harrowing tale of escape, evasion and survival: Dave Hersch is the only Nazi concentration camp survivor known...  Read More >>

In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship that was...  Read More >>

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

In this original study, Will Smiley reassesses an aspect of the legacy of the Ottoman-Russian wars in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

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