Prisoners of war books

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No Mercy from the Japanese: A Survivor's Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships 1942-1945

No Mercy from the Japanese: A Survivor's Account of...

Author: John Wyatt ,  Cecil Lowry
ISBN: 9781526753441
Format: Paperback
$34.99

"First hand accounts of 3 years captivity in Singapore, the Burma Railway and on Hellships"""  Read More >>

The Note Through the Wire: A WWII prisoner of war, a resistance heroine and their incredible true story

The Note Through the Wire: A WWII prisoner of war, a...

Author: Doug Gold
ISBN: 9781988547091
Format: Paperback
$36.99

An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, between two young people from opposite sides...  Read More >>

Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania: Allies on the Home Front, 1944-1945

Italian Prisoners of War in Pennsylvania: Allies on...

Author: Flavio G. Conti ,  Alan R. Perry
ISBN: 9781611479997
Format: Paperback
$98.99

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British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany

British Prisoners of War in First World War Germany...

Author: Oliver Wilkinson (University of Wolverhampton)
ISBN: 9781316648872
Format: Paperback
$80.19

Over 185,000 British military servicemen were captured by the Germans during the First World War. Utilising official...  Read More >>

Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction

Concentration Camps: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Dan Stone (Professor of Modern History, Royal Holloway, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198723387
Format: Paperback
$21.95

Nazi concentration camps are by no means the only examples of these 'extreme institutions'; Dan Stone sets out the...  Read More >>

The Music Maker: How One POW Provided Hope for Thousands

The Music Maker: How One POW Provided Hope for Thousands...

Author: Byrne, Jaci
ISBN: 9781526754868
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Details of life in a Nazi POW camp.  Read More >>

Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative Study of Great Britain and the USA

Internment during the Second World War: A Comparative...

Author: Dr. Rachel Pistol (University of Exeter, UK)
ISBN: 9781350106048
Format: Paperback
$69.99

The internment of ‘enemy aliens’ during the Second World War was arguably the greatest stain on the Allied record...  Read More >>

Left for Dead at Nijmegen: The True Story of an American Paratrooper in World War II

Left for Dead at Nijmegen: The True Story of an American...

Author: Marcus A. Nannini
ISBN: 9781612006963
Format: Hardback
$62.99

The true story of an American paratrooper who had a unique encounter during Operation Market Garden and his experiences...  Read More >>

The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III, March 1944

The True Story of the Great Escape: Stalag Luft III,...

Author: Jonathan Vance
ISBN: 9781784384388
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Key work built on interviews with dozens of former prisoners and relatives of the 50 prisoners of The Great Escape...  Read More >>

Stalag Luft III: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives

Stalag Luft III: Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives...

Author: Charles Messenger
ISBN: 9781784384463
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Photographic history of the POW camp that inspired the film The Great Escape.  Read More >>

The Napoleonic Prison of Norman Cross: The Lost Town of Huntingdonshire

The Napoleonic Prison of Norman Cross: The Lost Town...

Author: Paul Chamberlain ,  Dr Francis Pryor
ISBN: 9780750990462
Format: Paperback
$37.99

The human story of Cambridgeshire’s Napoleonic War prison  Read More >>

The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse of the Confederacy

The Yankee Plague: Escaped Union Prisoners and the Collapse...

Author: Lorien Foote
ISBN: 9781469652054
Format: Paperback
$79.07

In this fascinating look at Union soldiers' flight for freedom in the last months of the Civil War, Lorien Foote...  Read More >>

The Battle of the Bulge: Brothers Behind Enemy Lines

The Battle of the Bulge: Brothers Behind Enemy Lines...

Author: Suzanne Agnes
ISBN: 9780938075998
Format: Paperback
$39.47

Memoir of U.S. Army private from Chicago who fought in the Battle of the Bulge, World War II, and was captured by...  Read More >>

The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoirs of Bram Vanderstok

The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoirs of...

Author: Bram Van Der Stok
ISBN: 9781925675962
Format: Paperback
$29.99

I am one of those lucky ones who survived the war, and I can remember my emotional experiences, and those of my...  Read More >>

Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller

Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Memoir of Jens Muller...

Author: Jens Muller ,  Jon Muller
ISBN: 9781784384302
Format: Hardback
$59.99

Honest account by one of only three successful escapees from Stalag Luft III.  Read More >>

Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful Great Escape

Escape from Stalag Luft III: The True Story of My Successful...

Author: Bram Vanderstok
ISBN: 9781784384340
Format: Hardback
$64.69

This is the memoirs of Bram Vanderstok, number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft...  Read More >>

American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California

American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California...

Author: Kathy Kirkpatrick
ISBN: 9781634990936
Format: Paperback
$63.33

American Prisoner of War Camps in Northern California describes the impact of the large number of prisoners of war...  Read More >>

Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our ANZACs and let Nazi and Japanese war criminals go free

Traitors: How Australia and its Allies betrayed our...

Author: Frank Walker
ISBN: 9780733641459
Format: Paperback
$22.99

The extraordinary revelations in Traitors detail the ugly side of war and power and the many betrayals of our ANZACs....  Read More >>

Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway

Hell under the Rising Sun: Texan POWs and the Building...

Author: Kelly E. Crager
ISBN: 9781623497880
Format: Paperback
$65.87

"Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp...  Read More >>

Convicted for Courage: Prisoner of War Camps in 1940s Britain:The Experience

Convicted for Courage: Prisoner of War Camps in 1940s...

Author: Kevan Pooler
ISBN: 9781999366438
Format: Paperback
$32.08

Experiences of people involved in all aspects of the POW camp system across Britain, Italian, German and Ukrainian...  Read More >>

The Barbed Wire Fence

The Barbed Wire Fence

Author: Arno Christiansen
ISBN: 9781789553550
Format: Paperback
$14.29

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Stalag Luft I: An Official Account of the POW Camp for Air Force Personnel 1940-1945

Stalag Luft I: An Official Account of the POW Camp for...

Author:
ISBN: 9781526708793
Format: Hardback
$65.00

This official account of this prisoner of war camp was written for the War Office at the end of the war, drawing...  Read More >>

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