Prisoners of War

During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of war escaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and North Carolina, o...

A bestseller in 1946, Railroad of Death is the first and best account of forced labour on the Burma Railway. John Coast was a young officer in the ...

Relieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British...

Compounding the devastating tragedy of the Civil War was the failure of the warring parties to consistently maintain a system for the effective ...

Blighty or Bust is Private Raymond Baileys own account of his dramatic escape in 1940 from a Nazi prisoner-of-war column and his daring 2,000 mile...

Another Bloody Mountain is an eclectic mix of fact, fiction and fieldwork. It is a son's account of his father's period as a POW in Italy and subse...

This is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost....

Prisoners of war (POWs) are an important part in the history of the Second World War. Nikolaos Theotokis, in this vividly written book, examines th...

Three weeks after Imperial Japans surrender, five men dressed in baggy khaki uniforms stared at the camera. They and two colleagues were the only s...

Shortly after the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941, over 70,000 American and Filipino servicemen were captured by the Japanese in the ...

This is the only book available that tells the full story of how the U.S. government, between 1942 and 1945, detained nearly half a million Nazi pr...

The Comet Escape Line tells the story of the most successful escape line of the Second World War. Inspired by the English nurse Edith Cavell, who h...

I was a guest of Adolf! This was how Ernest Focht responded when asked about his wartime experience. Ernest Virgil Focht was born and brought up ...