(Hardback)
By: Jackie Sutherland
ISBN: 9781399010283
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Illustrated by a unique collection of postcards, letters, photographs and sketches not previously published.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Margalit Fox
ISBN: 9781788162722
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2022
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
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The astonishing true story of two First World War prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time.
(Hardback)
By: Alan Levine
ISBN: 9780275969554
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A collection of prisoner of war and concentration camp survivor stories from some of the toughest World War II camps in Europe and the Pacific, this book details the daring escapes and highlights the fundamental aspects of human nature that made such heroic efforts possible.
(Hardback)
By: Arnold Krammer
ISBN: 9780275993009
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Kent Fedorowich
ISBN: 9781859731529
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Examines the experiences of individual prisoners-of-war, looking in particular at alleged war-crimes and ensuing claims for compensation levelled against the Japanese, and at British treatment of Italian POWs. The book provides an overview and synthesis of the most heated debates in the field.
(Paperback)
By: Zalin Grant
ISBN: 9780306805615
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1994
Publisher: Hachette Books
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This book is the moving story of nine American soldiers and pilots who were captured and held prisoner for five years. It could only be told in their own words; so author Zalin Grant interviewed each
(Paperback)
By: Clara Olink Kelly
ISBN: 9780099445531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2003
Publisher: Cornerstone
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Why didn't you try to escape" That was all she said. I had imagined my grandmother telling us how lovely it was to see us at last. I saw again in my mind's eye the barbwire fences and the soldiers with the glistening bayonets
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Kilsby
ISBN: 9781923300903
Publication Date: Sep 2025
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Stephen Wynn
ISBN: 9781399075367
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2025
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2024
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Rod Miller
ISBN: 9781922615930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2022
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Frank Unwin
ISBN: 9781526714930
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Account of POW life in Italian and German camps and the infamous Winter March.
(Hardback)
By: Christine Bridges
ISBN: 9781399015257
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2022
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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This is Geoff's story of his captivity, release, and subsequent efforts in achieving his aim.
(Hardback)
By: Judy Balcombe
ISBN: 9781399067157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Details background life in pre-War Malaya and the Japanese invasion of the Malay peninsula in December 1941 leading to the Fall of Singapore.
(Hardback)
By: Primo Levi
ISBN: 9781857152227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1999
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2000
Publisher: Everyman
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Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. Probing the themes which preoccupy all his writing - work love, power, the nature of things, what it is to be human - he leaves the reader drained, elated, apprehensive.
(Hardback)
By: Tom Shore
ISBN: 9781473696754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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One of the great untold stories of twentieth century military history
(Paperback)
By: Eric Lomax
ISBN: 9780099582311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 1996
UK Publication Date: 6th June 1996
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships Lomax suffered for years until, with the help of his wife Patti and the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.
(Paperback)
By: Tom Shore
ISBN: 9781473696761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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One of the great untold stories of twentieth century military history
(Paperback)
By: Adelbert Toll
ISBN: 9781526761194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
UK Publication Date: 30th October 2019
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Eyewitness account by a German soldier of seven years in Soviet captivity after the Battle of Stalingrad.
(Hardback)
By: Ian Roberts
ISBN: 9781399049559
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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A fine and moving example of a Japanese POW memoir.
(Hardback)
By: Byrne
ISBN: 9781526754868
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Details of life in a Nazi POW camp.
(Hardback)
By: Julie Cook
ISBN: 9781399016827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2023
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Unseen photographs of prisoners of war in both the German and Far East theatres of war.Exclusive, never-seen diary excerpts from a prisoner of war in Germany in the First World War. A lengthy interview with a Gulf War prisoner of war and public speaker, ex-fast jet pilot John Peters.
