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...
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...
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...
An exploration of life as a Second World War POW through the extensive firsthand accounts of the former Italian prisoner, Umberto Montini. Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparal...Loe edasi...
Using a microhistory based on a unique set of life-writing sources, this book provides an unparalleled insight into the Soviet POW experience during the Second World War. It reconstructs key moments in the life of former Italian POW Umberto...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198955603)
This is the first book published on the 67,000 Indian Prisoners of War captured by the Japanese in World War Two, and it draws on a decade of research by the author on this neglected subject. During World War Two some 67,000 Indian personnel...Loe edasi...
This story of life in a German prisoner of war camp is different from the normal British POW story, as the author was a Gunner in the Royal Artillery - not an officer - who was accepted by the German Authorities as a Medical Orderly and, therefore, P...Loe edasi...
Stalag Luft lll was where Germany sent all its habitual Allied escapers, and the first British and Commonwealth POWs arrived there on 11 April 1942.The following year, on 29 October, what became known as The Wooden Horse Escape took place – the name...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803999395)
During the final days of the Second World War, for 900 Allied officers, held by the Germans in Oflag IX A/H and Oflag IX A/Z, freedom was still a world away. Marched east by their captors, away from the liberating American forces, March and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Apr-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198800620)
A global and comprehensive history of a modern institution of inhumanity.In popular perception concentration camps are synonymous with genocide and Nazi racial extermination. Yet concentration camps were and are a global phen...Loe edasi...
Seventy years ago, the Nuremberg Trials were in full swing in Germany. In the dock were the leaders of the Nazi regime and most eventually received their just desserts. But what happened to the other war criminals In June 1946, Lord Russell of Liverp...Loe edasi...
Acclaimed author Colum McCann tells the story of Diane Foley, whose son Jim was kidnapped and killed by ISIS, exploring what it takes to keep going in the face of unimaginable pain and the power of channelling that pain to help others....Loe edasi...
This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian enemy alien internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Emp...Loe edasi...
Diaries and letters from service personnel who were held captive throughout the Second World War survive in quite large numbers, but rarely are they so detailed as those of John Blomfield Dixon, whose home was in the Hertfordshire town of Ware. Havi...Loe edasi...
Opened in the spring of 1942 to house captured Allied airmen, Stalag Luft III at Sagan was planned and built to make escape particularly difficult, especially tunnelling. This, though, did not deter the prisoners. Numerous escape attempts followed, i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781399073202)
From 1942 until the end of the war in Europe, the aircraft of RAF Bomber Command and the United States’ 8th and 15th Air Forces maintained a twenty-four hour, ‘round-the-clock’ bombing offensive against the Third Reich. However, aircraft and crew cas...Loe edasi...
Until the late 1930s, Singapore was noted as a popular stop-off point for wealthy European travellers on their way to countries such as Australia and New Zealand. All of that changed with the outbreak of the Second World War. Until the late 1...Loe edasi...
Prisoners of war (POWs) are an important part in the history of the Second World War. Nikolaos Theotokis, in this vividly written book, examines the subject, taking a closer look at the hundreds of thousands of Axis military personnel, including wome...Loe edasi...
Shortly after the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbor in late 1941, over 70,000 American and Filipino servicemen were captured by the Japanese in the Philippines. What ensued for these young men is considered by many military historians to be one of the...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780750997430)
This is the story of the brave civilians who helped Allied airmen and other evaders to escape from occupied Europe and return to Britain, via Gibraltar or Lisbon As German forces took control of their country, a group of young Belgians co...Loe edasi...
The Lost Years tells the story of Roger Rothwell, captured by the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 during the fall of Hong Kong, along with 900 of his fellow soldiers. He was one of only 150 who walked through the camp gates to freedom in 1945.The book...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-May-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803995007)
An explosive tale of courage, survival and the incredible 500 Indian prisoners of war who escaped the clutches of the Nazis and crossed the border to freedom....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-May-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Air World, ISBN-13: 9781399073301)
From 1942 until the end of the war in Europe, the aircraft of the RAF’s Bomber Command and the United States 8th and 15th Air Forces provided twenty-four-hour ‘round-the-clock’ bombing of the Third Reich. Aircraft and crew casualties were heavy as bo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478024842)
During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Mar-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 9781478030027)
During the First World War, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by...Loe edasi...
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...
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...
Containing meticulous research of a long under-represented part of the Holocaust, this book provides a rich pictorial documentation of the Gulag environment as told by Jewish refugees. While millions of Soviet slaves awaited liberation fr...Loe edasi...
