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Military History of Prisoners of War

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Open Road to Faraway: Escapes from Nazi POW Camps 1941-1945

By Andrew Sneddon Winton, Allan Carswell (Curator, The National War Museum, Scotland)

The Confidence Men: How Two Prisoners of War Engineered the Most Remarkable Escape in History

By Margalit Fox

Women Heroes of World War II-the Pacific Theater: 15 Stories of Resistance, Rescue, Sabotage, and Survival

By Kathryn J. Atwood

American Cipher: One Soldier's Nightmare in the Afghanistan War

By Matt Farwell, Michael Ames

Under The Wire

By William Ash

The Saboteur of Auschwitz: The Inspiring True Story of a British Soldier Held Prisoner in Auschwitz

By Rushton, Colin

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

Unbroken

By Hillenbrand, Laura

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

By Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick

The Twins: The SOE's Brothers of Vengeance

By Peter Jacobs

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

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

By Richard Van Emden

Colditz

By Chancellor, Henry

All for Freedom - A True story of escape from the Nazis

By D.T.A. Davies, Ioan Wyn Evans

Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese

By Coogan, Andy

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in World War II

By Weintraub, Robert

No Better Friend: One Man, One Dog, and Their Incredible Story of Courage and Survival in World War II

By Weintraub, Robert

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

By Benuzzi, Felice

491 Days: Prisoner Number 1323/69 (Modern African Writing Series)

By Madikizela-Mandela, Winnie, Kathrada, Ahmed

The Great Escape

By Gill, Anton

Ghost Soldiers

By Sides, Hampton

Horror In The East

By Rees, Laurence

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Alistair Urquhart

Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese 1942-45

By MacArthur, Brian

The Great Escapers: The Full Story of the Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape

By Carroll, Tim

The Latter Days at Colditz

By Reid, P. R.