Prisoners of war books

863 books were found.

Dissenting POWs:: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America Today

Dissenting POWs:: From Vietnam’s Hoa Lo Prison to America...

Author: Tom Wilber ,  Jerry Lembcke
ISBN: 9781583679098
Format: Hardback
$193.00

"Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of ""The Hanoi Hilton,"" or Hoa Lo...  Read More >>

The Daily Telegraph - Book of Colditz Castle Obituaries: Prisoner of War Camp Oflag IV-C

The Daily Telegraph - Book of Colditz Castle Obituaries:...

Author: The Daily Telegraph
ISBN: 9781526795069
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A fascinating collection of obituaries exploring the varied and action-packed history of the world's most famous...  Read More >>

Internment in Switzerland during the First World War

Internment in Switzerland during the First World War...

Author: Dr Susan Barton (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350201590
Format: Paperback
$64.99

In contrast to the plethora of works focusing on the tragic loss of human lives during the First World War, little...  Read More >>

German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton Camp

German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in the Skipton...

Author: Anne Buckley
ISBN: 9781526765291
Format: Hardback
$75.00

First full English translation of a German account of life in an English prisoner-of-war camp in Skipton, Yorkshire...  Read More >>

Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

Vintage Roger: Letters from the POW Years

Author: Roger Mortimer ,  Charlie Mortimer
ISBN: 9781472132239
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A self-deprecating and humorous account of life in the Coldstream Guards followed by a wry, witty collection of...  Read More >>

Colditz: The Full Story

Colditz: The Full Story

Author: P R Reid
ISBN: 9781529048094
Format: Paperback
$19.99

An authoritative account of life in the famous Colditz Castle by one of the few prisoners of war who managed to...  Read More >>

Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military Conflicts

Useful Captives: The Role of POWs in American Military...

Author: Daniel Krebs ,  Lorien Foote
ISBN: 9780700630516
Format: Hardback
$145.07

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'When the War Began We Heard of Several Kings': South Asian Prisoners in World War I Germany

'When the War Began We Heard of Several Kings': South...

Author: Franziska Roy ,  Heike Liebau
ISBN: 9781138103719
Format: Hardback
$221.00

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Boy Soldier: A memoir of innocence lost and humanity regained in northern Uganda

Boy Soldier: A memoir of innocence lost and humanity...

Author: Norman Okello ,  Theo Hollander
ISBN: 9781783528110
Format: Hardback
$49.99

Abducted and forced to fight with the Lord’s Resistance Army at the age of twelve, Norman Okello describes a journey...  Read More >>

A Pocket History of Kilmainham Gaol

A Pocket History of Kilmainham Gaol

Author:
ISBN: 9780717189892
Format: Hardback
$18.09

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Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions

Man's Search For Meaning: Classic Editions

Author: Viktor E Frankl
ISBN: 9781846046384
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding...  Read More >>

Guantanamo Matters: Materialising Post-9/11 Security

Guantanamo Matters: Materialising Post-9/11 Security...

Author: Elspeth Van Veeren (University of Bristol, UK)
ISBN: 9780415844802
Format: Hardback
$271.69

Materialising Post-9/11 Security is the first full-length study of the controversial U.S. military detention and...  Read More >>

Escape to Japanese Captivity: A Couple's Tragic Ordeal in Sumatra, 1942-1945

Escape to Japanese Captivity: A Couple's Tragic Ordeal...

Author: Captain Mick Jennings ,  Margery Jennings
ISBN: 9781526783097
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Classic example of popular Japanese POW genre.  Read More >>

The Captain Was a Doctor: The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid

The Captain Was a Doctor: The Long War and Uneasy Peace...

Author: Jonathon Reid
ISBN: 9781459747210
Format: Paperback
$46.55

After five weeks of officer training, Dr. John Reid was sent to Hong Kong in 1941. After the Japanese victory, he...  Read More >>

Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime Captivity 1940-1943

Barbed-Wire Blues: A Blinded Musician's Memoir of Wartime...

Author: Bernard Harris
ISBN: 9781526783868
Format: Hardback
$59.99

The inspirational memoir of a seriously wounded and blinded POW who was later repatriated in 1943.  Read More >>

The Taste of Longing: Ethel Mulvany and her Starving Prisoners of War Cookbook

The Taste of Longing: Ethel Mulvany and her Starving...

Author: Suzanne Evans
ISBN: 9781771134897
Format: Paperback
$46.45

Half a world away from her home in Manitoulin Island, Ethel Mulvany is starving in Singapore’s infamous Changi Prison,...  Read More >>

Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy

Captives in Blue: The Civil War Prisons of the Confederacy...

Author: Roger Pickenpaugh
ISBN: 9780817360061
Format: Paperback
$79.07

A study of Union prisoners in Confederate prisons, this is a companion to Roger Pickenpaugh's earlier groundbreaking...  Read More >>

Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam

Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam

Author: William Reeder Jr
ISBN: 9781682473832
Format: Paperback
$30.00

A captivating memoir of the last US Army soldier taken prisoner during the Vietnam War. A narrative of courage,...  Read More >>

Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story of U.S. Marine George Burlage, a WWII Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese

Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship: The Survival Story...

Author: Georgianne Burlage
ISBN: 9781574418088
Format: Hardback
$79.07

US Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring...  Read More >>

Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire

Ferramonti: Salvation behind the barbed wire

Author: David Henryk Ropschitz ,  Yolanda Ropschitz-Bentham
ISBN: 9783949197000
Format: Hardback
$90.56

This autobiographical novel written in 1982, takes the reader back to WW2 to experience life behind the barbed wire...  Read More >>

The War Behind the Wire: Voices of the Vetrans: Second World War POW Experiences

The War Behind the Wire: Voices of the Vetrans: Second...

Author: Patrick Wilson
ISBN: 9781526782311
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Tie-in book to major BBC1 series to be screened during the Autumn. Interest in WW2 continues to grow. New light...  Read More >>

Nazi Prisons in the British Isles: Political Prisoners during the German Occupation of Jersey and Guernsey, 1940-1945

Nazi Prisons in the British Isles: Political Prisoners...

Author: Gilly Carr
ISBN: 9781526770936
Format: Hardback
$77.99

What was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study...  Read More >>

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most Infamous Prison

Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World’s Most...

Author: Sarah Mirk ,  Various
ISBN: 9781419746901
Format: Hardback
$35.00

An anthology of illustrated narratives about the prison and the lives it changed forever.  Read More >>

Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps

Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps

Author: Sarah Kovner
ISBN: 9780674737617
Format: Hardback
$63.95

Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn’t a matter of Japanese...  Read More >>

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