Prisoners of war books

863 books were found.

Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings

Against Racial Capitalism: Selected Writings

Author: Neville Alexander ,  Salim Vally
ISBN: 9780745348377
Format: Paperback
$59.49

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The Burma Railway and PTSD: A Family Memoir

The Burma Railway and PTSD: A Family Memoir

Author: Kim Wheeler
ISBN: 9781399049894
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A compelling insight into one Far East ex POW survivor's mental health and terrible suffering, long after he returned...  Read More >>

Hamburg des Ostens?: Der Ausbau des Wiener Hafens in der NS-Zeit

Hamburg des Ostens?: Der Ausbau des Wiener Hafens in...

Author: Ina Markova ,  Stefan Wedrac
ISBN: 9783205217558
Format: Hardback
$111.24

The book describes the history of the Viennese ports before the expansion of Albern into a grain port from 1938...  Read More >>

They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center

They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland...

Author: Shelley Baker-Gard ,  Michael Freiling
ISBN: 9780870712357
Format: Paperback
$79.07

The poems collected here were written by twenty-two poets, who produced hundreds of poems whilst detained in the...  Read More >>

The Governor's Pawns: Hostages and Hostage-Taking in Civil War West Virginia

The Governor's Pawns: Hostages and Hostage-Taking in...

Author: Randall S. Gooden
ISBN: 9781606354575
Format: Hardback
$145.20

While the taking of hostages was common during the Civil War, it was unique for an individual state government to...  Read More >>

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa

Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa...

Author: Professor Jennifer Lofkrantz (Person)
ISBN: 9781648250644
Format: Hardback
$261.36

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era...  Read More >>

British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War Camps, History and Heritage

British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second...

Author: Dr Gilly Carr (University of Cambridge, UK) ,  Dr. Rachel Pistol (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350266254
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain,...  Read More >>

The Trauma of Captivity: PoW Mental Heath

The Trauma of Captivity: PoW Mental Heath

Author: Julie Cook
ISBN: 9781399016827
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Unseen photographs of prisoners of war in both the German and Far East theatres of war.Exclusive, never-seen diary...  Read More >>

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience in America's World War II Concentration Camps

Lawyer, Jailer, Ally, Foe: Complicity and Conscience...

Author: Eric L. Muller
ISBN: 9781469673974
Format: Hardback
$51.70

In re-creating the daily lives of War Relocation Authority attorneys, Eric Muller adds colour, nuance, and pathos...  Read More >>

The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage and adventure

The Greatest Escape: A gripping story of wartime courage...

Author: Neil Churches
ISBN: 9781529060355
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The incredible story of the largest POW prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War – organized by ordinary...  Read More >>

Survival and Separation on the River Kwai: The Ordeal of a Japanese Prisoner of War and His Family

Survival and Separation on the River Kwai: The Ordeal...

Author: Ian Roberts
ISBN: 9781399049559
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A fine and moving example of a Japanese POW memoir.  Read More >>

The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most Terrifying Prison

The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britain’s Most...

Author: Nicholas Guyatt
ISBN: 9780861542215
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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

Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee: Coerced Labor and the Captive Enemy on the Home Front, 1941-1946

Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee: Coerced Labor and...

Author: Antonio S. Thompson
ISBN: 9781476681672
Format: Paperback
$80.30

Examines for the first time Tennessee’s role in the World War II POW program, and how the influx of prisoners affected...  Read More >>

Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction

Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction

Author: Tunde Ososanya
ISBN: 9781915023100
Format: Paperback
$33.61

Twelve short stories, mostly focused on life in Lagos but with two stories dedicated to the plight of people in...  Read More >>

The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024

The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness...

Author: Maxim Znak ,  Jim and Ella Dingley
ISBN: 9781910895757
Format: Paperback
$33.61

One hundred stories written in prison in Belarus in 2021 awaiting trial. While the futures of fellow prisoners hang...  Read More >>

165 Days: Prisoner of the Taliban

165 Days: Prisoner of the Taliban

Author: Asad Qureshi
ISBN: 9780764364266
Format: Hardback
$62.99

A true first person account of Taliban captivity in Waziristan.  Read More >>

Reflections on Captivity: A Tapestry of Stories by a Vietnam War POW

Reflections on Captivity: A Tapestry of Stories by a...

Author: Porter Halyburton
ISBN: 9781682478257
Format: Hardback
$37.40

On October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission, and held...  Read More >>

French and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison, 1805-1816: The Strangest Experiment

French and American Prisoners of War at Dartmoor Prison,...

Author: Neil Davie
ISBN: 9783030838935
Format: Paperback
$284.60

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

Free Fall

Free Fall

Author: William Golding
ISBN: 9780571371631
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Question everything in this philosophical tale by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies, introduced...  Read More >>

A PRISONER OF STALIN: The Chilling Story of a Luftwaffe Pilot Shot Down and Captured on the Eastern Front

A PRISONER OF STALIN: The Chilling Story of a Luftwaffe...

Author: Christian Huber
ISBN: 9781526733214
Format: Hardback
$49.99

A Luftwaffe pilot's chilling account of operating over the Eastern Front in the Second World War.  Read More >>

Bombs and Barbed Wire: Stories of Acadian Airmen and Prisoners of War, 1939-1945

Bombs and Barbed Wire: Stories of Acadian Airmen and...

Author: Ronald Cormier
ISBN: 9781773102788
Format: Paperback
$41.37

Little has been written about the Acadians who served in Canada's armed forces during the Second World War. In fact,...  Read More >>

Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History of World War I Internments

Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History...

Author: Rotem Kowner ,  Iris Rachamimov
ISBN: 9781501765902
Format: Paperback
$84.35

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Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History of World War I Internments

Out of Line, Out of Place: A Global and Local History...

Author: Rotem Kowner ,  Iris Rachamimov
ISBN: 9781501765421
Format: Hardback
$343.20

"""Internment was a defining experience of War World I with ten million combatants and civilians placed in camps...  Read More >>

Great Escape Forger: The Work of Carl Holmstrom - POW#221. An Artist in Stalag Luft III

Great Escape Forger: The Work of Carl Holmstrom - POW#221....

Author: Susan Holmstrom Kohnowich
ISBN: 9781526767981
Format: Hardback
$76.99

Unique collection of superb artwork depicting POW life. The Author played a key role forging papers for Great Escapers....  Read More >>

Lost Women of Rabaul

Lost Women of Rabaul

Author: Rod Miller
ISBN: 9781922615930
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Travel with a group of captured Australian nurses into the dark heart of the ascendant Japanese Empire at the start...  Read More >>

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