Prisoners of War

Adios to Tears is the very personal story of Seiichi Higashide (190997), whose life in three countries was shaped by a bizarre and little-known epi...

During World War II, Kentuckians rushed from farms to factories and battlefields, leaving agriculture throughout the state--particularly the luc...

Until the late twentieth century, relatively few Americans knew that the United States government forcibly detained nearly 120,000 Japanese America...

After the Anschluss (annexation) in 1938, the Nazis forced Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg to resign and kept him imprisoned for seven years, ...

Provides the first comprehensive analysis of the history of returning German POWs after the Second World War, explored as a history of memory both ...

In the Japanese American relocation camps of World War II, internees could, on any given day, be both clients and victims of their assigned War Rel...

Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the ons...

During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in German...

Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this...

Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, ther...

Palestinian prisoners charged with security-related offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel's security. They are seen as potential, if...

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of La...

The Johnson-Gilmor Raid represents one of three attempts to free prisoners of war during the American Civil War. Like the other two, it was destine...

British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban comma...