Prisoners Of War

BIC code: JWXR
See also: Warfare

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    313 Days To Christmas: A Human Record Of War And Imprisonment - Alan Mackay - Hardback
    In February 1943 the prisoners of war in Stalag Luft III, Sagan, were restless and bored. Alan Mackay decided to do something about the rumours and low morale. So Daily Recco was born, the only paper for POW's printed during the Third Reich.
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    All Men Are Brethren: Prisoners Of War In Scotland, 1803-1814 - Ian MacDougall - Paperback
    During 1803-14 thousands of French and other prisoners of war were held in Scottish depots. This book describes how they passed their years of captivity - with activities including gambling, forging banknotes, fencing, playing cricket, keeping pets, playing musical instruments and attending education classes.
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    The Cost Of A Reputation: Aldington Versus Tolstoy - Ian Mitchell - Paperback
    The Cost of a Reputation recounts, in painstaking detail, the events of the libel case initiated by Lord Aldington against Nikolai Tolstoy and Nigel Watts. The case concerned the forced repatriation of Soviet peoples at the end of WW2.
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    The Great Escapers: The Full Story Of The Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape - Tim Carroll - Paperback
    The Great Escape was one of the most remarkable episodes of the Second World War. This work tells the story of these men who managed to break free from the supposedly impenetrable barbed wire and watchtowers of Stalag Luft III, Göring's showcase prison camp near Sagan.
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    The Great Escapers: The Full Story Of The Second World War's Most Remarkable Mass Escape - Tim Carroll - Hardback
    'The Great Escapers' charts the story through the experiences of those who lived under the sweeping searchlights of ominous watchtowers, ending with the eight remaining men who broke out that March night 60 years ago - the last of the Great Escapees.
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    The Naked Island - Russell Braddon - Paperback
    This is the first-hand account of a Japanese prisoner of war. It comments on the brutal Japanese treatment of native workers and any who were not Japanese and it reveals the reality of the 'Greater Asian co-prosperity sphere' promised by the Japanese.
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    'Notify Alec Rattray': A Story Of Survival - Meg Parkes - Paperback
    This is a true story of survival concerning a young Scottish soldier and his family during World War II. Captain Atholl Duncan served as a cipher officer in Singapore and then in Java, before being taken prisoner by the Japanese in March 1942.
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    Open Road To Faraway: Escapes From Nazi POW Camps, 1941-1945 - Andrew Winton - Paperback
    The author describes briefly his early days in Lanarkshire and holidays with relatives near Clerish before war disrupts his studies. Shot down and injured while on a bombing mission, he is arrested and taken to the first of many POW camps - Dulag Luft.
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    The Railway Man - Eric Lomax - Paperback
    In 1942 Lomax was caught up in the fall of the British Empire, & tortured by the Japanese. Many years after the war, his life was changed by the discovery that his interrogator was still alive - their reconciliation is the culmination of this unusual story.