Prisoners of war books

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Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners

Shadowland: The Story of Germany Told by Its Prisoners...

Author: Sarah Colvin
ISBN: 9781789146271
Format: Hardback
$39.99

Shadowland tells the sometimes inspiring, often painful stories of German prisoners after WWII, and thereby shines...  Read More >>

The Cowra Breakout

The Cowra Breakout

Author: Mat McLachlan
ISBN: 9780733647628
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The Cowra Breakout is a riveting read that brings to light the missing piece of Australia's World War II history...  Read More >>

The Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese Captivity during WWII

The Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese...

Author: J. Forrest Pollard
ISBN: 9780764363504
Format: Hardback
$75.00

This is the war diary of one of the longest-serving American POWs in the Pacific.  Read More >>

Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story of Australian and New Zealand airmen in a Nazi death camp

Destination Buchenwald: The astonishing survival story...

Author: Colin Burgess
ISBN: 9781761106712
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The harrowing story of the Allied airmen who experienced the true horrors of Nazism firsthand. It was the summer...  Read More >>

POW on the Sumatra Railway

POW on the Sumatra Railway

Author: Christine Bridges
ISBN: 9781399015257
Format: Hardback
$59.99

This is Geoff's story of his captivity, release, and subsequent efforts in achieving his aim.  Read More >>

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered...

Author: Margalit Fox
ISBN: 9781788162722
Format: Paperback
$24.99

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A Marine POW Remembers Hell: Sergeant Major Charles R. Jackson in Japanese Captivity

A Marine POW Remembers Hell: Sergeant Major Charles...

Author: Bruce H. Norton
ISBN: 9781680532609
Format: Hardback
$71.00

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Captured at Arnhem: From Railwayman to Paratrooper

Captured at Arnhem: From Railwayman to Paratrooper

Author: Norman Hicks
ISBN: 9781399014571
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Details the story of a soldier throughout his wartime adventures and life as a railway man.  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: 9781529060348
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The incredible story of the largest POW escape in the Second World War - organized by ordinary men who ultimately...  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: 9781529060331
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900 1975

British Concentration Camps: A Brief History from 1900...

Author: Simon Webb
ISBN: 9781399011402
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Describes in detail the concentration camps run in Scotland, which held Jews, communists and homosexuals.  Read More >>

Korean Atrocity!

Korean Atrocity!

Author: Philip D Chinnery
ISBN: 9781399074476
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Controversial and shocking expos of mistreatment and killing of Allied POWs by their North Korean and Chinese captors....  Read More >>

Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot: Defending The Reich Against The RAF and USAAF

Luftwaffe Fighter Pilot: Defending The Reich Against...

Author: Wolfgang Fischer ,  John Weal
ISBN: 9781911667292
Format: Paperback
$34.99

Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five...  Read More >>

Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp System

Torture, Humiliate, Kill: Inside the Bosnian Serb Camp...

Author: Hikmet Karcic
ISBN: 9780472132966
Format: Hardback
$224.40

Argues that the use of camps and detention facilities has been a ubiquitous practice in countless wars and genocides...  Read More >>

Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator

Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor...

Author: Cecil Lowry
ISBN: 9781399002929
Format: Paperback
$44.99

This stirring biography reveals the full story of a remarkable man who survived against the odds to save countless...  Read More >>

Unspoken: A Father’s Wartime Escape. A Son’s Family Discovered

Unspoken: A Father’s Wartime Escape. A Son’s Family...

Author: Tom McGrath
ISBN: 9780717192540
Format: Paperback
$41.37

The true story of a son who discovered the unspoken truths of his parents lives after their deaths, including the...  Read More >>

Spy Artist Prisoner: My Life in Romania under Fascist and Communist Rule

Spy Artist Prisoner: My Life in Romania under Fascist...

Author: George Tomaziu
ISBN: 9781915023049
Format: Paperback
$33.61

The Romanian artist George Tomaziu expected to be imprisoned for monitoring German troop movements during the Second...  Read More >>

Comment traiter les « soldats d’Hitler » ?: Les relations interalliées et la détention des prisonniers de guerre allemands (1939-1945)

Comment traiter les « soldats d’Hitler » ?: Les relations...

Author: Jean-Michel Turcotte
ISBN: 9782760337190
Format: Paperback
$105.47

Far from being restricted to barbed wire camps or within the borders of a single nation, the detention of German...  Read More >>

Comment traiter les « soldats d’Hitler » ?: Les relations interalliées et la détention des prisonniers de guerre allemands (1939-1945)

Comment traiter les « soldats d’Hitler » ?: Les relations...

Author: Jean-Michel Turcotte
ISBN: 9782760337206
Format: Hardback
$184.67

Far from being restricted to barbed wire camps or within the borders of a single nation, the detention of German...  Read More >>

The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant Colonel Kappe on the Thai-Burma Railroad

The Death Railway: The Personal Account of Lieutenant...

Author: Kappe, Charles
ISBN: 9781399017770
Format: Hardback
$59.99

This is Lieutenant Colonel Kappe's account of what he and the many other PoWs of F' Force endured from May to October...  Read More >>

Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway: Accounts of Life, Death and War Crimes by Those Who Were There With F-Force

Medical Officers on the Infamous Burma Railway: Accounts...

Author: John Grehan
ISBN: 9781399095624
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Through the words of the Medical Officers themselves, some of the detail of what really happened on the Death Railway,...  Read More >>

Scattered Under the Rising Sun: The Gordon Highlanders in the Far East 1941 - 1945

Scattered Under the Rising Sun: The Gordon Highlanders...

Author: Mitchell, Stewart
ISBN: 9781399085113
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Describes the horrific ordeal of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders at the hands of the Japanese....  Read More >>

A Knock at the Door: The Story of My Secret Work With Israeli MIAs and POWs

A Knock at the Door: The Story of My Secret Work With...

Author: Ory Slonim
ISBN: 9781642939323
Format: Hardback
$79.20

The inside story of Israel’s secret negotiations to bring home their soldiers taken hostage by terrorist groups....  Read More >>

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