Prisoners of War

By the spring of 1941, the enemy had taken much of Southern Europe: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, and with Italy in the Axis it stood to d...

Many books and memoirs have been written on prisoner of war captivity in the Far East during the Second World War. Some contain incredible detail c...

Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration c...

This is a remarkable and unique story of Jim Brigginshaw. Having been captured by the Japanese after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Jim was first s...

Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern globa...

In late August of 2011, Shahbaz Taseer was driving to his office in Lahore, Pakistan when he was dragged from his car at gunpoint and kidnapped by ...

When they heard the allies were coming, we were given extra rice to have the strength and energy to dig our own graves. In February 1942, ten-year ...

The Trauma of Captivity seeks to shed new light on a forgotten aspect of what it meant to be a prisoner of war: their homecoming. With primary sour...

Eric Roberts was conscripted in 1939 into the 1/5 Sherwood Foresters. After service in France and evacuation from Brest in 1940, the Battalion were...

Below are reviews of From Liguria With Love (original edition of A British Partisan) A gripping account of the many months spent behind enemy line...

In April 1941, a passenger ship sailing from New York to Cape Town was attacked and sunk by a German raider in the South Atlantic. The passengers w...

Beguiling. The Times Compelling. Wall Street Journal A vivid portrait. Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story ...

The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served ...

Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The Kings Hard Bargain tells...

The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II history, told by bestselling historian Mat McLachlan (Walking with the Anzacs, ...

After landing on D-Day, 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment fought through France, Holland and into Germany as part of the 3rd (British) Infantry D...

The odds on Paul le Goupil living to see the end of the Second World War, let alone the 21st Century, were negligible in 1944. Yet he did. As his...