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History of Prisoners of War in World War II

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Colditz: Prisoners of the Castle

By Ben Macintyre

Boldness Be My Friend

By Richard Pape

From Calais to Colditz: A Rifleman's Memoir of Captivity and Escape

By Harry Pardoe

The Soldier Who Came Back

By Steve Foster, Alan Clark

The Great Escapers

By Tim Carroll

Moonless Night: Wartime Diary of a Great Escaper

By B. A. James

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Memoirs of a Goldfish: Experiences of a World War II Bomber Pilot and POW

By Jim Burtt-Smith

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front

By Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield

SAS: Rogue Heroes

By Ben Macintyre

The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

By Peter Jacobs

Soldaten - On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs

By Sonke Neitzel, Harald Welzer, neitzel, Sonke, Welzer, Harald

Hellfire: Australia, Japan and the Prisoners of War

By Cameron Forbes

Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway

By Reg Twigg

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

By Christopher Clark

Prisoners of the Kaiser: The Last POWs of the Great War

By Richard Van Emden

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

The Last Secret (Coronet Books)

By Bethell, Nicholas

The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram: A Compelling Story of Courage and Endurance in the Second World War

By David M. Guss

The Barbed-Wire University: The Real Lives of Allied Prisoners of War in the Second World War

By Gillies, Midge

The Night of the New Moon

By Van Der Post, Laurens

My War: Prisoner Of War

By Ross, Stewart

Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway - A Memoir

By Robert Charles

Tornado Down: Original Edition: The Unputdownable No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller

By John Peters, John Nichol

China's War with Japan, 1937-1945: The Struggle for Survival

By Mitter, Rana

The Burma-Siam Railway: The Secret Diary of Dr.Robert Hardie, 1942-45

By Robert Hardie

The War Behind the Wire: The Life, Death and Glory of British Prisoners of War, 1914-18

By John Lewis-Stempel