For the first time, this book chronicles all the daring escapes from Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle. By late 1939, the German Blitzkrieg offensive had swept up a number of prisoners of war who were housed in forts and purpose-built camps. To t...Loe edasi...
In 1943, there were more than 60 prisoner of war camps throughout Mussolinis Italy. Behind barbed wire and under the guards dark gaze were captive Allied soldiers. After the Italian Armistice thousands escaped as guards deserted their posts, but w...Loe edasi...
What would it be like leave your loved ones behind knowing you may never see them again? Then depart on a ship in the dead of night heading for an unknown destination and find yourself in the heat of a battle which concludes in enemy conditions so t...Loe edasi...
German Prisoners of the Second World War in the United States examines the complex lives of German POWs held on American soil during WWII, exploring camp policies, internal conflicts, and their lasting impact on prisoner mental health....Loe edasi...
Tom Boardman was a talented ukulele player from Leigh in Lancashire. At the start of the Second World War, he joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps. After his training, he was posted to Singapore. To his surprise, there was no actual fighting, but a g...Loe edasi...
Sari: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Rochester Press, ISBN-13: 9781648251467)
Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads....Loe edasi...
From the Pulitzer Prize finalist, a harrowing new history of the Civil War’s prisoner of war camps, North and South. It is newly estimated that 750,000 soldiers died in the American Civil War. But less well-known than the war’s death toll are...Loe edasi...
Trooper Mick Holland served seven months with the Long Range Desert Group as an interpreter, medical orderly, and gunner until his capture in September 1942. From there until the end of the war he spent more time ‘on the run’ than in PoW camps. He ma...Loe edasi...
Singapore 1942. This is the story of Captain Mohan Singh, 14 Punjab Regiment, the first commander of the Indian National Army (INA) supported by Japan to expel the British from India. Of the soldiers who found it a great attraction or an impossible d...Loe edasi...
This memoir of a Royal Flying Corps officers escape from captivity in the autumn of 1917 was published in the earlier thirties, towards the end of the torrent of personal war accounts that were put into print in the years following the Armistice. He...Loe edasi...
Students, military historians, and casual readers will all find this compelling collection useful in learning about escape strategies, hostage situations, and rescue operations during times of conflict.Great Wartime Escapes and R...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Nov-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Beyond the Pale Books, ISBN-13: 9781914318320)
1981 Irish republican hunger striker reflects on survival, the mass escape of 1983, subsequent struggles with the prison administration, the death of his parents during his incarceration and the flourishing of writing. On leaving prison he studies f...Loe edasi...
The dramatic story of Franz von Werra, famously the only Axis PoW to succeed in escaping and make it home during the Second World War, is told in the 1957 movie The One That Got Away. The film details von Werra’s interrogation by RAF intelligence in...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674291591)
Victims of mass repression in Stalin’s Soviet Union were subject to physical and psychological torture by their interrogators, forced to confess to crimes they did not commit. Many eventually broke, accepting that continuing to resist the interrog...Loe edasi...
