Prisoners of War

Millions of innocent people were arrested in Stalins Soviet Union during the 1930s in different waves of mass repression. Under violent interrogati...

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 ...

_The Lost Years_ tells the story of Roger Rothwell, captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 during the fall of Hong Kong, along with 900 of ...

Stalin is quoted as saying One mans death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic. This is the story of a man who was determined to be neith...

The one unresolved issue of the Pacific War is the treatment of our prisoners of war, during and after World War II, both by the Japanese and by ou...

This is Bill Cull's unforgettable story of his experiences in WW1: he fought at Gallipoli and on the Western Front where he was captured by the Ger...

This book reviews the nature of the alleged abuse committed by the UK military forces, exploring the legal paradigm in which the abuse allegedly oc...

On 11 May 1944, just four weeks before D-Day, sixty-seven American heavy bombers dropped 168 tons of bombs on the sunlit French town of Épinal on t...

An incredible tale of one man's adversity and defiance, for readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz.Horace Greasley escaped over 200 times from a not...

The gripping, vividly told story of the largest prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War organized by an Australian bank clerk, a British...

Stalin's Gulag at War places the Gulag within the story of the regional wartime mobilization of Western Siberia during the Second World War. Far fr...

Richard ORawe was a senior IRA prisoner in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh Prison. One of the Blanketmen, he took part in the dirty protests that led to ...

A compelling and prismatic love story of one family's defiance in the face of injusticeand how their story echoes across generations.It is both ove...

During the Second World War over 200,000 British prisoners of war were detained by the Third Reich. A large proportion of these PoWs were members o...

This is the war diary of one of the longest-serving American POWs in the Pacific. Preserved within this book is the diary of Lieutenant Walter...

Ugandas civil war with Joseph Konys Lords Resistance Army has raged since the 1980s, claiming over 100,000 lives and displacing around 1.5 million ...

The Korean War lasted for three years, one month, and two days, but armistice talks occupied more than two of those years, as more than 14,000 Chin...

The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed 'Sara') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary's harrowing years in a Turkish ...