Prisoners of War

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 ...