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Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who Twice Escaped the Nazi Holocaust

Death March Escape: The Remarkable Story of a Man Who...

Author: Hersch, Jacob J
ISBN: 9781526740229
Format: Hardback
$75.00

A harrowing tale of escape, evasion and survival: Dave Hersch is the only Nazi concentration camp survivor known...  Read More >>

The Soldier Who Came Back

The Soldier Who Came Back

Author: Steve Foster ,  Alan Clark
ISBN: 9781912624010
Format: Paperback
$42.11

In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship that was...  Read More >>

Internment during the First World War: A Mass Global Phenomenon

Internment during the First World War: A Mass Global...

Author: Stefan Manz (Aston University, UK) ,  Panikos Panayi (De Montfort University, UK)
ISBN: 9780415787444
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Although civilian internment has become associated with the Second World War in popular memory, it has a longer...  Read More >>

From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire, Russia, and International Law

From Slaves to Prisoners of War: The Ottoman Empire,...

Author: Will Smiley (Assistant Professor of History & Humanities, Assistant Professor of History & Humanities, Reed College)
ISBN: 9780198785415
Format: Hardback
$191.95

In this original study, Will Smiley reassesses an aspect of the legacy of the Ottoman-Russian wars in the eighteenth...  Read More >>

Pilgrim Spy: My secret war against Putin, the KGB and the Stasi

Pilgrim Spy: My secret war against Putin, the KGB and...

Author: Tom Shore
ISBN: 9781473696754
Format: Hardback
$49.99

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Confederate Prisoners at Fort Delaware: The Legend of Mistreatment Reexamined

Confederate Prisoners at Fort Delaware: The Legend of...

Author: Joel D. Citron
ISBN: 9781476669229
Format: Paperback
$62.70

Drawing on prisoner diaries and Union Army documents (some newly discovered), this volume presents a fresh and detailed...  Read More >>

Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration

Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History...

Author: Connie Y. Chiang (Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Professor of History and Environmental Studies, Bowdoin College)
ISBN: 9780190842062
Format: Hardback
$195.36

Nature Behind Barbed Wire uses an environmental lens to reinterpret the forced removal and confinement of Japanese...  Read More >>

Facing Fearful Odds: My Father's Extraordinary Experiences of Captivity, Escape and Resistance 1940-45

Facing Fearful Odds: My Father's Extraordinary Experiences...

Author: John Jay
ISBN: 9781526748430
Format: Paperback
$38.79

A thrilling account of fighting, captivity and escape.  Read More >>

Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner of War, 1941-1945

Tin Hats and Rice: A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner...

Author: Barbara Anslow
ISBN: 9789887792741
Format: Paperback
$36.99

I cant visualise us getting out of this, but I want to TRY to believe in a future, wrote 23-year-old Barbara Anslow...  Read More >>

Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love, Life and Death

Stalin’s Meteorologist: One Man’s Untold Story of Love,...

Author: Olivier Rolin ,  Ros Schwartz
ISBN: 9781784701758
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2018 The beautifully illustrated, heartbreaking story of an...  Read More >>

A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal and The Legacy

A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese-Their Ordeal...

Author: Ellie Taylor
ISBN: 9781526732613
Format: Hardback
$59.99

An unusual example of the popular but shocking Japanese POW genre.  Read More >>

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story...

Author: David M. Guss
ISBN: 9781509829576
Format: Paperback
$18.99

The extraordinary - and never before told - story of Alastair Cram, the British soldier who escaped from prisoner-of-war...  Read More >>

"Cahaba Prison and the """"Sultana"""" Disaster"

"Cahaba Prison and the """"Sultana"""" Disaster"

Author: William O. Bryant
ISBN: 9780817311339
Format: Paperback
$52.67

This is the story of Cahaba Prison where 5000 Union soldiers were interned during the latter part of the Civil War....  Read More >>

Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki

Survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki

Author: Jim Brigginshaw
ISBN: 9781526740106
Format: Hardback
$51.72

A classic first hand account of life and death as a POW on the Burma Railway.  Read More >>

The Kaiser's Escapees: Allied POW escape attempts during the First World War

The Kaiser's Escapees: Allied POW escape attempts during...

Author: Philip Chinnery
ISBN: 9781526701435
Format: Hardback
$52.99

Covers the attempts by Allied PoWs to escape giving a detailed insight into many lives held in captivity  Read More >>

POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I - Searching for America's Missing Servicemen in the Soviet Union

POW/MIA Accounting: Volume I - Searching for America's...

Author: Paul M. Cole
ISBN: 9789811071270
Format: Hardback
$569.22

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The Soldier Who Came Back

The Soldier Who Came Back

Author: Steve Foster ,  Alan Clark
ISBN: 9781907324239
Format: Hardback
$79.07

In Northern Poland in 1940, at the Nazi war camp Stalag XX-A, two men struck up an unlikely friendship that was...  Read More >>

Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport: A Soldier's Memoir of Captivity and Escape in Italy and Germany

Escaping Has Ceased to be a Sport: A Soldier's Memoir...

Author: Frank Unwin
ISBN: 9781526714930
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Account of POW life in Italian and German camps and the infamous Winter March.  Read More >>

Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East (Japanese Biological Warfare in China 1933-45)

Unit 731: Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the...

Author: Yang Yan-Jun ,  Tam Yue-Him
ISBN: 9781781556788
Format: Hardback
$53.99

This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of WW2. Manufacture and the...  Read More >>

Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities during the War for Independence

Dangerous Guests: Enemy Captives and Revolutionary Communities...

Author: Ken Miller ,  Kenneth Miller
ISBN: 9781501725883
Format: Paperback
$72.42

In Dangerous Guests, Ken Miller reveals how wartime pressures nurtured a budding patriotism in the ethnically diverse...  Read More >>

From Normandy to Auschwitz

From Normandy to Auschwitz

Author: Paul Le Goupil
ISBN: 9781526721914
Format: Hardback
$65.99

A superb and moving memoir of the Author s harrowing ordeals.  Read More >>

Le mensonge d'Ulysse & Ulysse trahi par les siens

Le mensonge d'Ulysse & Ulysse trahi par les siens

Author: Paul Rassinier
ISBN: 9781913890223
Format: Hardback
$69.86

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