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A former prisoner of the Gestapo, Kulka leads us through the horror of the Nazi death camps, describing such unbearable conditions as the over-crowded ghettos where Jewish …

A remarkable collection of accounts of intrepid American aircrew shot down over enemy lines during World War II and how they got away. To be an airman in the Eighth Air Force …

NOMINERT TIL DEN INTERNASJONALE BOOKERPRISEN Det er 2008 og fest i kibbutzen: Gili og familien feirer 90-årsdagen til bestemor Vera, hun som binder dem alle sammen. Før Nina …

Gunther Plüschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history - during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British …

In July 1864, while hemmed in by Grant at Richmond, General Robert E. Lee conceived a bold plan designed not only to relieve Lynchburg and protect the Confederate supply line …

The second instalment in a gripping memoir by Sakine Cansiz (codenamed ''Sara'') chronicles the Kurdish revolutionary''s harrowing years in a Turkish prison, following her arrest …

It is over fifty years since the critics of the day acclaimed The Wooden Horse as a superbly told story of the most ingenious and daring escape of the Second World War. Millions of …

'How does a one-time American farm boy become a Japanese Imperial Army prisoner of war in the Soviet Union after World War-II? Iwao Peter Sano's tale of how this happened to him is …

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious violations of civil liberties in United States history. Removed …

The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military operations in …