Prisoners of War
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Man''s Search For Meaning: Classic Editions
Viktor E FranklCurrent price €15.36Original price €18.50Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holo...
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Do the Birds Still Sing in Hell?: A powerful true story of love and survival
Horace GreasleyCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50An 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...
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz: A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival
Thomas GeveCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people s...
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Unbroken
Laura HillenbrandCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSEL...
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Examining Torture: Empirical Studies of State Repression
Palgrave MacmillanCurrent price €49.27Original price €55.99The United States' use of torture and harsh interrogation techniques during the War on Terror has sparked fervent debate among citizens and scholar...
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Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution
T. Cole JonesCurrent price €91.51Original price €103.99Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the ons...
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Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (19151918)
Anette HoffmannCurrent price €25.08Original price €28.50During 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...
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Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
Professor Jennifer LofkrantzCurrent price €87.11Original price €98.99Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this...
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Captive Revolution: Palestinian Women''s Anti-Colonial Struggle within the Israeli Prison System
Nahla AbdoCurrent price €87.11Original price €98.99Women throughout the world have always played their part in struggles against colonialism, imperialism and other forms of oppression. However, ther...
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Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel
Pluto PressCurrent price €34.31Original price €38.99Palestinian prisoners charged with security-related offences are immediately taken as a threat to Israel's security. They are seen as potential, if...
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Guantanamo: Facility, Security & Legal Considerations
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €160.15Original price €181.99Since 2002, the United States has operated military detention facilities at its Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold individuals detained...
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The Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese Captivity during WWII
Schiffer Publishing LtdCurrent price €26.96Original price €30.99This 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 J. ...
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Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence
Ken MillerCurrent price €30.79Original price €34.99In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse revolutionary community of La...
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Destined to Fail: The Johnson-Gilmor Cavalry Raid Around Baltimore, July 10-13, 1864
Eric WittenbergCurrent price €21.11Original price €23.99The 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...
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165 Days: Prisoner of the Taliban
Asad QureshiCurrent price €30.79Original price €34.99British documentary filmmaker Asad Qureshi works in the world's most dangerous places. When he set off to film secret interviews with Taliban comma...
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The Twins: The SOE''s Brothers of Vengeance
Peter JacobsCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50December 1941. After setting up one of the first resistance organisations in Vichy France and escaping over the Pyrenees into Spain, brothers Henry...
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The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944
Jonathan VanceCurrent price €14.95Original price €16.99It shows the variety and depth of the men sent into harms way during World War II, something emphasised by the population of Stalag Luft III. Most ...
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The Zekameron: Shortlisted for The Republic of Consciousness Prize 2024
Maxim ZnakCurrent price €14.99Original price €18.50WINNER OF ENGLISH PEN AWARD 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024 How did these stories get into your hands? They flew...
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Lagos, Life and Sexual Distraction
Tunde OsosanyaCurrent price €16.28Original price €18.50A collection of 12 short stories, mostly focused on the distinct character of life in Lagos - the commercial capital of Nigeria. In writing this bo...
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The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy
Lorien FooteCurrent price €38.71Original price €43.99During the winter of 1864, more than 3,000 Federal prisoners of warescaped from Confederate prison camps into South Carolina and NorthCarolina, oft...
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Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration
Connie Y. ChiangCurrent price €65.11Original price €73.99The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties i...
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Castle of the Eagles: Escape from Mussolinis Colditz
Mark BostridgeCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99'Keeps up the suspense to the end.' The Times Literary Supplement'An extraordinary, and largely forgotten wartime story -- brought back to life in ...
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Syrian Gulag: Inside Assads Prison System
Jaber BakerCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50An estimated 300,000 people have been detained or have died in prison since the Syrian uprising broke out. Syrians can be arrested for liking a pos...
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Defending Crete from the Fallschirmjagers: Memoirs of a Royal Engineer & POW
Andrew G TaylorCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50By 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...
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Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War
Colin ShindlerCurrent price €28.60Original price €32.50Current price €28.60Original price €32.50Save 12% -
The Burma Railway and PTSD: A Family Memoir
Kim WheelerCurrent price €26.98Original price €32.50Many 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...
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Napoleon''s Purgatory: The Unseen Humanity of the Corsican Ogre in Fatal Exile (with an introduction by J. David Markham)
Thomas M. BardenCurrent price €43.98Original price €52.99Current price €43.98Original price €52.99Save 17% -
Allied Internment Camps in Occupied Germany: Extrajudicial Detention in the Name of Denazification, 19451950
Andrew H. BeattieCurrent price €85.35Original price €96.99Between 1945 and 1950, approximately 130,000 Germans were interned in the Soviet zone of occupied Germany, including in former Nazi concentration c...
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The Crack Era: The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Kevin Chiles
Esq Richard RayCurrent price €28.21Original price €33.99Current price €28.21Original price €33.99Save 17% -
The Changi Cross: A Symbol of Hope in the Shadow of Death
Louise CordinglyCurrent price €12.31Original price €13.99Current price €12.31Original price €13.99Save 12% -
Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki
Jim BrigginshawCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99This 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...
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Never Surrender: Dramatic Escapes From Japanese Prison Camps
Mark FeltonCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99While there have been many fine books covering escapes from German POW camps (The Wooden Horse, Great Escape, Colditz etc), the exploits of those P...
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Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction
Dan StoneCurrent price €14.07Original price €15.99Concentration camps are a relatively new invention, a recurring feature of twentieth century warfare, and one that is important to the modern globa...
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Lost to the World: A Memoir of Faith, Family and Five Years in Terrorist Captivity
Shahbaz TaseerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50In 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 ...
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In the Shadow of the Rising Sun: Surviving a Prisoner of War Childhood
Olga HendersonCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99When 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 ...
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The Trauma of Captivity: PoW Mental Heath
Julie CookCurrent price €25.08Original price €28.50The 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...
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Survival and Separation on the River Kwai: The Ordeal of a Japanese Prisoner of War and His Family
Ian RobertsCurrent price €23.32Original price €26.50Eric Roberts was conscripted in 1939 into the 1/5 Sherwood Foresters. After service in France and evacuation from Brest in 1940, the Battalion were...
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Bugle Call to Freedom: The PoW Escape from Camp PG 49 Fontanellato 1943
Marco MinardiCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50Current price €15.40Original price €17.50Save 12% -
The British Partisan: Capture, Imprisonment and Escape in Wartime Italy
Michael RossCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99Below are reviews of From Liguria With Love (original edition of A British Partisan) A gripping account of the many months spent behind enemy line...
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The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer''s Footballers Survived a First World War Prison Camp
Paul BrownCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Current price €14.88Original price €17.50Save 15% -
The Accidental Captives: The Story of Seven Women Alone in Nazi Germany
Carolyn GossageCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99In 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...
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The Hated Cage: An American Tragedy in Britains Most Terrifying Prison
Nicholas GuyattCurrent price €15.83Original price €17.99Beguiling. The Times Compelling. Wall Street Journal A vivid portrait. Daily Mail Buried in the history of our most famous jail, a unique story ...
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American Cipher: One Soldier''s Nightmare in the Afghanistan War
Matt FarwellCurrent price €15.40Original price €17.50The explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served ...
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Accommodating the King''s Hard Bargain: Military Detention in the Australian Army 1914-1947
Graham WilsonCurrent price €22.87Original price €25.99Like all crime and punishment, military detention in the Australian Army has a long and fraught history. Accommodating The Kings Hard Bargain tells...
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The Cowra Breakout
Mat McLachlanCurrent price €21.57Original price €25.99The riveting story of the missing piece of Australia's World War II history, told by bestselling historian Mat McLachlan (Walking with the Anzacs, ...
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