All
This Hell : U.S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese
by Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee,
Rosemary L. Neidel
Hardcover - 264 pages (April 2000)
Univ Pr of Kentucky; ISBN: 0813121485
Bataan
and Beyond : Memoires of an American Pow
(Centennial Series of the Texas A&m University Association of Former
Students, No 6)
by John S., Jr. Coleman, Thomas Dooley
(Paperback - August 1991)
Behind
Barbed Wire : German Prisoner of War Camps in Minnesota
by Anita Buck
Paperback - 144 pages (June 1998)
North Star Pr of st Cloud; ISBN: 0878391134
Beyond
Courage : One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945
by Dorothy Cave
A vivid narrative of the men of New Mexico's 200th and 515th Coast
Artillery (AA) units. Cave skillfully tells a story of hardship, bravery,
unspeakable treatment, and a never-dying belief that their country would
liberate them. They were the first unit to fire on the enemy in the Philippines
and the last organized unit to lay down their arms when surrender came.
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Paperback - 466 pages Revised edition (August 1996)
Yucca Tree Pr; ISBN: 1881325148
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Bridge
over the River Kwai
by Pierre Boulle
Classic fictional tale of British POW's on the Burma Railway.
Hardcover (July 1988)
Amereon Ltd; ISBN: 0891905715
Building
the Death Railway : The Ordeal of American POWs in Burma,1942-1945
by Robert S. LA Forte (Designer), Ronald E. Marcello (Editor)
Hardcover - 300 pages (January 1993)
Scholarly Resources; ISBN: 084202428X
Burma Railway Artist : The War Drawings of Jack Chalker
by Jack Bridger Chalker, Jack A. Chalker, Edward Dunlop (Designer),
Jack L. Chalker
Listed under Art in Wartime
Captured Soviet Generals : The Fate of Soviet Generals Captured by
the Germans, 1941-1945 (Soviet Military Institute)
by Aleksander A. Maslov, et al
Listed under Russian Commanders
of WWII
Conduct Unbecoming : The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners
of War in Normandy
by Howard Margolian
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Dancing
Along the Deadline : The Andersonville Memoir of a Prisoner of the Confederacy
by Ezra Hoyt Ripple (Editor), Mark A. Snell (Editor)
Hardcover - 168 pages (May 1996)
Presidio Pr; ISBN: 0891415777
Death
March : The Survivors of Bataan
by Donald Knox, Stanley L. Falk (Designer)
A collection of first-hand accounts.
Paperback (April 1983)
Harvest Books; ISBN: 0156252244
Death
on the Hellships: Prisoners at Sea in the Pacific War
by Gregory F. Michno
The Japanese treatment of prisoners of war in World War II has been
written about before, but only with this chronicle will readers come to
appreciate the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It
is a disturbing story that for many made the Bataan Death March pale by
comparison. Amazon.com
United States Naval Inst.
Hardcover (June 2001)
Four
Thousand Bowls of Rice : A Prisoner of War Comes Home
by Linda Goetz Holmes, J. M. Williams
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Hardcover - 179 pages (August 1994)
Allen & Unwin; ISBN: 1863735798
Evidence
Not Seen : A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II
by Darlene Deibler Rose
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Paperback - 256 pages Reprint edition (September 1990)
Harper San Francisco; ISBN: 0060670207
German
POWs in Florida (The Florida History and Culture Series)
by Robert D., Jr. Billinger, Gary Mormino, Raymond Arsenault
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Hardcover - 262 pages (February 2000)
Univ Pr of Florida (T); ISBN: 0813017408
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic
Mission
Bestseller by Hampton Sides
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The
Great Escape
by Paul Brickhill
The true account of a daring mass escape from a Nazi prison camp, by
one of the eight hundred men involved. A "classic" escape story, fascinating
for its portraits of the organizers of the escape and of the Germans running
the camp. 
Book Description: With only their bare hands and the crudest
of homemade tools, they sank shafts, built underground railroads, forged
passports, drew maps, faked weapons, and tailored German uniforms and civilian
clothes.
They developed a fantastic security system to protect themselves from
the German "ferrets" who prowled the compounds with nerve-racking tenacity
and suspicion.
It was a split-second operation as delicate and as deadly as a time
bomb. It demanded the concentrated devotion and vigilance of more than
six hundred men -- every single one of them, every minute, every hour,
every day, and every night for more than a year.
Mass Market Paperback from Fawcett Books
Book Published: November, 1991 |
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Horyo
: Memoirs of an American POW
by Richard M. Gordon, Benjamin S. Llamzon
Hardcover - 400 pages (November 1999)
Paragon House; ISBN: 1557787816
The
Long Walk
by Slavomir Rawicz
Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939
during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian
Gulag along with other captive Poles, Finns, Ukranians, Czechs, Greeks,
and even a few English, French, and American unfortunates who had been
caught up in the fighting. A year later, he and six comrades from various
countries escaped from a labor camp in Yakutsk and made their way, on foot,
thousands of miles south via the Gobi Desert and Tibet to British India,
where Rawicz re-enlisted in the Polish army and fought against the Germans.
The Long Walk recounts that adventure, which is surely one of the most
curious treks in history.
Paperback: 256 pages
The Lyons Press; ISBN: 1558216847; Reprint edition (December
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Nazi
Prisoners of War in America
by Arnold Krammer
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Paperback (June 1996)
Scarborough House; ISBN: 0812885619
Martial
Justice : The Last Mass Execution in the United States (Bluejacket
Books Series)
by Richard Whittingham
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Paperback - 288 pages (October 1997)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 155750945X
A historical tragedy of a young German submariner POW who was
willing to sacrifice the bond of comradeship to save his homeland. Seven
of his comrades were executed in the United States after the cessation
of hostilities.
My
Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March
by Lester I. Tenney
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Hardcover - 240 pages (June 1, 1995)
ISBN: 0028811259
The
Naked Island
by Russell Braddon
Book Description: Russell Braddon wrote The Naked Island in 1950. By
1968 it had been reprinted eleven times and sold one million copies in
Britain alone. As the author states, 'It was written to tell the world
what sort of people the Japanese can be. It was written to explain what
they did in the war and what they might well do again.'
There are numerous books on the war in the East but this is one of
the greatest. Often hilarious, even amidst the horror, this is the story
of what the Japanese did to those they captured. It is written in prose
all the more effective for its dry understatement and sharp observation
by a man who never lost his will to live even in the most terrible circumstances.
Braddon's story is however not that simply of a prisoner of war. In his
comments on the equally brutal Japanese treatment of native workers and
indeed any who were not Japanese, he reveals the hollow reality of the
'Greater Asian co-prosperity sphere' promised by the Japanese, and attempts
to understand how one group of human beings could behave in such a way
towards another and the inhuman ideology and fanaticism which drove the
Japanese on.
Even today the subject of Japanese war guilt is never far from the headlines
and it was only last year that a deal on compensation was arrived at for
surviving POWs.
Paperback from Birlinn Ltd
Book Published: June, 2002
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Portals
to Hell : The Military Prisons of the Civil War
by Lonnie R. Speer
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Hardcover - 416 pages 1 Ed edition (September 1997)
Stackpole Books; ISBN: 0811703347
Prisoners
in Paradise : American Women in the Wartime South Pacific
by Theresa Kaminski
Hardcover - 284 pages (March 2000)
Univ Pr of Kansas; ISBN: 0700610030
Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy
by Ray Parkin
An extraordinary work by an Australian who endured the sinking of his
ship, the Perth, after an epic battle in the Sunda Strait against impossible
odds. Captured by the Japanese, he then spent years as a POW on the Burma
Railway before being shipped to Japan to work the mines until the dropping
of the atomic bomb. The work comprises his three books: Out of the Smoke;
Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom. Dropbears.com
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River
Kwai Railway : The Story of the Burma-Siam Railway
by Clifford Kinvig
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Paperback - 248 pages (September 1998)
Brasseys Inc; ISBN: 1857532058
The
Road Back: A Pacific POW's Liberation Story
Dorothy Davis Thompson
A balanced and well-written account of camp conditions in the Philipines
under the Japanese by a nurse who returned with the Army Nurse Corps after
her liberation.
Hardcover: 256 pages
Texas Tech University Press; ISBN: 0896723623; (June
1996)
Surviving
the Day: An American POW in Japan
Frank J. Grady, Rebecca Dickson
Hardcover / Published 1997
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Surviving
Bataan and Beyond : Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey As a Japanese Prisoner
of War
by Irvin Alexander, Dominic J. Caraccilo (Editor), Ken Hechler
Hardcover - 224 pages 1 Ed edition (May 1999)
Stackpole Books; ISBN: 0811715965
Undue
Process : The Untold Story of America's German Alien Internees
by Arnold Krammer
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Hardcover - 272 pages (December 1997)
Rowman & Littlefield; ISBN: 0847685187
The
Gulf Between Us : Love and Terror in Desert Storm
by Cynthia B. Acree, et al
Hardcover: 322 pages
Brasseys, Inc.; ISBN: 1574881590; (April 1, 2000)
Stalag
Wisconsin: Inside WWII Prisoner of War Camps
by Betty Cowley
(Paperback)
Faith
Beyond Belief: A Journey to Freedom
by David Eberly
(Hardcover)
White
Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives
by Paul Michel Baepler (Editor)
(Paperback - April 1999)
He
Leadeth Me
by Walter J. Ciszek, Daniel Flaherty
(Paperback - February 1995)
The
Prisoners of Cabrera: Napoleon's Forgotten Soldiers, 1809-1814
by Denis Smith
(Hardcover)
In
the Shadow of the Rising Sun : The Story of Robert Davis, Pow and d Battery
515th Cac, Orphan Unit of Bataan
by Yvonne Boisclaire, Robert Davis (Photographer)
(Paperback - December 1997)
Hitler's
Prisoners: Seven Cell Mates Tell Their Stories
by Erich O. Friedrich, Renate G. Vanegas
(Paperback)
Refuge
from the Reich : American Airmen and Switzerland During World War II
by Stephen Tanner
(Hardcover)
Attention,
Fool!
by William Jacob Weissinger
Hardcover (June 1998)
Eakin Publications; ISBN: 157168171X
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Railway
of Hell
by Reginald Burton, Ronald
Searle
Hardcover from Pen & Sword
Book Published: August, 2002
Stalag
17B
by Richard H. Hoffman, Richard H. Hoffman Lt. Col. USAF
(Hardcover)
A
Gallant Company: The Men of the Great Escape
by Jonathan F. Vance
(Hardcover)
Voices
from Captivity: Interpreting the American POW Narratives
Robert C. Doyle
Hardcover / Published 1994
Popularized by books and films like Andersonville, The Great Escape,
and The Hanoi Hilton, and recounted in innumerable postwar memoirs, the
POW story holds a special place in American culture. Robert Doyle's remarkable
study shows why it has retained such enormous power to move and instruct
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Song
of Survival : Women Interned
by Helen Colijn
Helen Colijn was a 20-year-old Dutch woman living with her parents
on a small island near Borneo when the Japanese invaded in 1941. Shipwrecked,
she and her two younger sisters were captured by Japanese soldiers and
shuffled from concentration camp to concentration camp for the duration
of World War II. This book chronicles their personal travails and the horrible
sufferings of the British and Dutch women with whom they were interned.
Perhaps more significantly, it tells the remarkable story of Margaret Dryburgh,
a Presbyterian missionary who gave her fellow prisoners a means to survive
spiritually: the vocal orchestra. Working from memory, she reconstructed
the "Largo" from Dvorak's Symphony No. 9 in E minor, and works by Tchaikovsky,
Beethoven, Ravel, and Grainger--and taught them to a chorus of prisoners.
Even the often-brutal Japanese guards were moved by the concerts, Colijn
reports. Although this book often glosses over the horrors, it is a moving
account of some remarkable women and the music that sustained them.
The story is also told in White Coolies, a contemporary diary
by Betty Jeffrey, an Australian nurse.
Hardcover - 216 pages (December 1995)
White Cloud Press; ISBN: 1883991102
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Prisoner
of the Japanese : From Changi to Tokyo
by Tom Henling Wade
Paperback - 186 pages (July 1994)
Seven Hills Book Distributors; ISBN: 0864176023
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The
Great Raid on Cabanatuan : Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
by William B. Breuer
Paperback - 258 pages (September 1994)
John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0471037427
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Lest
We Forget: A POW Memoir of World War II
Dan McCullen
Hardcover (April 1997)
Fithian Pr; ISBN: 1564741915
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Unjust
Enrichment : How Japan's Companies Built Postwar Fortunes Using American
Pows
by Linda Goetz Holmes
(Hardcover - January 2001)
The Railway Man
Eric Lomax
A World War II veteran recalls his capture by the Japanese, the torture
he endured, his work on the infamous Burma-Siam railroad - a project that
claimed the lives of 250,000 men - and, fifty years later, his reconciliation
with Nagase Takashi, his Japanese tormentor.
Hardcover - 276 pages (September 1995)
W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393039102
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Diary of a Girl in Changi 1941-1945
by Sheila Bruhn
Paperback - 168 pages (July 1994)
Seven Hills Book Distributors; ISBN: 0864176198
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The Wooden Horse
by Eric Williams
Paperback Reprint edition (June 1995)
BBC Pubns; ISBN: 0563369019
A classic - possibly the classic - WWII escape story.
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The Wrong Side of the Fence: A United States Army Corps POW in World
War II
Eugene Halmos
Hardcover - 152 pages (May 1996)
White Mane Pub; ISBN: 1572490349
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To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945
by Ronald Searle
Searle survived the Burma Railway, just, and returned with a unique
visual record of the tragedy. He narrates the tale with great humility,
brevity and flashes of dark humor. An important addition to the military
historian's library. Db.
Hardcover from Atlantic Monthly Press ISBN 0871130734
Book Published: April, 1986
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The Blue Haze: POW's on the Burma Railway
Leslie G. Hall
Paperback - 344 pages (November 1996)
Kangaroo Pr; ISBN: 0864177860
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Caged Dragons: An American POW in WWII Japan
Robert E. Haney
Hardcover - 282 pages (July 1991)
Momentum Books Ltd; ISBN: 1879094061
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Captive of the Rising Sun : The POW Memoirs of Rear Admiral Donald
T. Giles, USN
Donald T. Giles
Hardcover - 232 pages (August 1994)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503206
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The Diggers of Colditz
by Jack Champ, Colin Burgess
Australians in Hitler's infamous WW2 castle prison
This book follows the fortunes of Lt. Jack Champ, an Australian infantryman,
as he is captured and becomes a POW. Jack took part in two of the most
spectacular mass escapes of the war, but was recaptured on both occasions,
and for his audacity in trying to escape was sent to Colditz Castle in
Saxony, where the Germans had brought together the most hardened escapers
of the war. Jack describes life in Colditz, and the escape attempts in
which he participated, including the famed Colditz glider. Colin Burgess
Paperback - 204 pages (May 1998)
Seven Hills Book Distributors; ISBN: 0864178395
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Stoker
Donald Watt
ISBN: 0731805852 Published 1995
Captured in Crete, POW Poland, escaped and made it to Swiss border
via Germany, recaptured and tortured by Gestapo and then sent to Auschwitz
when he wouldn't talk. Somewhere along the way endured an abdominal operation
without anathesetic. Spent two months in solitary in the death camp, listening
to the rats eating his fellow inmates, then many more months stoking the
ovens, sometimes being forced to throw his co-workers live into the furnace
when they dropped from exhaustion. Inexplicably released back into a POW
camp, the traumatised Watt said naught about his experiences to the other
POW's nor to the authorities on his release. His first wife knew nothing
of it, as he'd completely blocked it out. In the late 80's his second wife
read out a newspaper article about compensation for Australians who'd been
in Nazi concentration camps, and the words "I was there" slipped out. His
wife eventually wheedled the story out of him, resulting in this book.
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his assessment.
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We Will Wait : Wives of French Prisoners of War, 1940-1945
by Sarah Fishman
Hardcover - 253 pages (January 1992)
Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300047746
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