Prisoners of war books

863 books were found.

Falling in love with myself

Falling in love with myself

Author: Savina Redpath
ISBN: 9781920535957
Format: Paperback
$33.51

This is a story of the difficulties which an Italian prisoner of war and later immigrant family to South Africa...  Read More >>

Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers

Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers...

Author: Yoshikuni Igarashi
ISBN: 9780231177702
Format: Hardback
$61.95

Homecomings tells the story of late-returning Japanese soldiers and their struggle to adapt to a newly peaceful...  Read More >>

Fighting Monsters: An Intimate History of the Sandakan Tragedy

Fighting Monsters: An Intimate History of the Sandakan...

Author: Richard Wallace Braithwaite
ISBN: 9781925333763
Format: Paperback
$49.95

An extreme POW story, the Sandakan death marches. The tragedy had four stages: active resistance, stubborn endurance,...  Read More >>

Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters from Home

Surviving the Death Railway: A Pow's Memoir and Letters...

Author: Hilary Custance Green
ISBN: 9781473870000
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A superb example of the ever popular and moving Japanese POW/Death Railway genre.  Read More >>

The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the Great War and Beyond

The Stigma of Surrender: German Prisoners, British Captors,...

Author: Brian K. Feltman
ISBN: 9781469633510
Format: Paperback
$85.80

Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun...  Read More >>

The Changi Brownlow: An inspirational story of the Aussie spirit

The Changi Brownlow: An inspirational story of the Aussie...

Author: Roland Perry
ISBN: 9780733634581
Format: Paperback
$23.26

This is the moving, powerful and compelling story of a group of Australian POWs who organise an Australian Rules...  Read More >>

Ambon: The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

Ambon: The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps...

Author: Roger Maynard
ISBN: 9780733636622
Format: Paperback
$28.44

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Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century: Archives, Stories, Memories

Wartime Captivity in the 20th Century: Archives, Stories,...

Author: Anne-Marie Pathe ,  Fabien Theofilakis
ISBN: 9781785332586
Format: Hardback
$276.86

In recent years, wartime captivity has taken on new urgency as a historical topic. This wide-ranging volume brings...  Read More >>

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity...

Author: Harry Pardoe
ISBN: 9781473875395
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A classic Second World War Memoir of the bitter Calais fighting, captivity and many escape attempts.  Read More >>

Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War

Death on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific...

Author: Gregory F. Michno
ISBN: 9781591146322
Format: Paperback
$81.71

Though the Japanese treatment of prisoners of war during World War II has been written about before, only with this...  Read More >>

A Doctor's Sword

A Doctor's Sword

Author: Bob Jackson
ISBN: 9781848892866
Format: Hardback
$51.72

A Doctor's Sword is the story of the incredible life of Aidan MacCarthy, an Irish doctor who survived Dunkirk, Japanese...  Read More >>

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

I Love Churchill: 400 Fantastic Facts

Author: Cate Ludlow ,  Cate Ludlow
ISBN: 9781841657349
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Did you know that Winston Churchill spent his twenty-fifth birthday as a prisoner of war? Or that he once had dinner...  Read More >>

After Stalingrad

After Stalingrad

Author: Adelbert Holl ,  Tony Le Tissier
ISBN: 9781473856110
Format: Hardback
$59.99

An eyewitness account by a German soldier of seven years in Soviet captivity after the Battle of Stalingrad.  Read More >>

Flight from Colditz

Flight from Colditz

Author: Anthony Hoskins
ISBN: 9781473848542
Format: Hardback
$59.99

A recreation of the most ambitious PoW escape attempt ever conceived.  Read More >>

Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish POWs of the Japanese in the Second World War

Under the Heel of Bushido: Last Voices of the Jewish...

Author: Martin Sugarman ,  Colin Shindler
ISBN: 9780853039082
Format: Paperback
$64.69

This book contains dozens of accounts both horrific and inspiring, amusing and sand of the experiences of Jewish...  Read More >>

Packed for the Wrong Trip: A New Look inside Abu Ghraib and the Citizen-Soldiers Who Redeemed America?s Honor

Packed for the Wrong Trip: A New Look inside Abu Ghraib...

Author: W. Zach Griffith
ISBN: 9781628726459
Format: Hardback
$44.99

How an Unprepared, Undertrained Group of Maine National Guard Troops Went to Abu Ghraib to Fix the Irreparable The...  Read More >>

The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash - The Greatest Escaper of World War II

The Cooler King: The True Story of William Ash - The...

Author: Patrick Bishop
ISBN: 9781782390251
Format: Paperback
$24.99

The true wartime story of William Ash - the inspiration for Steve McQueen's character in The Great Escape. A thrilling...  Read More >>

Blanketmen

Blanketmen

Author: Richard O'Rawe
ISBN: 9781848405547
Format: Paperback
$36.20

An inside account of the H-Blocks hunger strike of the early 1980s.  Read More >>

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in World War II

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible...

Author: Robert Weintraub
ISBN: 9781444796964
Format: Paperback
$26.99

An extraordinary tale of the remarkable bond between one man and his dog during the Second World War.  Read More >>

The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom

The Long Walk: The True Story Of A Trek To Freedom

Author: Slavomir Rawicz
ISBN: 9781493022618
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China,...  Read More >>

Report of the Committee against Torture: fifty-first session (28 October - 22 November 2013) and the fifty-second session (28 April - 23 May 2014)

Report of the Committee against Torture: fifty-first...

Author: United Nations: Committee against Torture ,  United Nations: General Assembly
ISBN: 9789218301543
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This is the official Record of the Report of the Committee against Torture on the Fifty-first session (28 October...  Read More >>

Gwersyll Fron-goch 1916 - Y Pair Dadeni

Gwersyll Fron-goch 1916 - Y Pair Dadeni

Author: Lyn Ebenezer
ISBN: 9781845275556
Format: Paperback
$21.99

Yna y dechreuodd y Gwyddelod gynnau tn o dan y pair dadeni Ar drothwy canmlwyddiant Gwrthryfel y Pasg mae'r diweddariad...  Read More >>

The Cooler King

The Cooler King

Author: Patrick Bishop ,  Peter Noble
ISBN: 9781407960463
Format: Audio
$226.91

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The Cooler King

The Cooler King

Author: Patrick Bishop ,  Peter Noble
ISBN: 9781407960470
Format: Audio
$226.91

The Cooler King tells the astonishing story of William Ash, an American flier, who after being shot down in his...  Read More >>

Escape from the Japanese

Escape from the Japanese

Author: Ralph Burton Goodwin
ISBN: 9781848329294
Format: Hardback
$59.99

One of the most astonishing escape stories of the Second World War.  Read More >>

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