Catalog Search Results
1) In tranzit
Publisher
Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
A bitter game of cat and mouse ensues when a group of German POWs are accidentally sent to a female-run Soviet prison camp after WWII. As each group learns that things are not always as they seem, they realize that sometimes prejudices are unjustly held and love can be found in even the worst places.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thailand-Burma Death Railway in 1943, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. His life is a daily struggle to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from pitiless beatings--until he receives a letter that will change him forever. Moving deftly from the POW camp to contemporary Australia, from the experiences of...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime minister of England one day, despite the fact he had just lost his first election campaign for Parliament. He believed that to achieve his goal he must do something spectacular on the battlefield. Despite deliberately putting himself in extreme danger as a British Army officer in colonial wars in India and Sudan, and as a journalist covering a Cuban uprising...
4) Bloodthirsty
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Gunslinger Joe Buckhorn agrees to the request of a survivor of Andersonville, a Civil War camp for Northern prisoners run by the sadistic General Thomas Wainwright, to kill Wainwright and end his control over an Arizona township.
Author
Language
English
Description
After surviving the brutality of a Nazi prison camp, Marta Nedermann, starting a new life in London with her husband, a British diplomat, once again becomes trapped in a web of intrigue and betrayal when Communists infiltrate British Intelligence and the traitor is linked to her past.
8) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections. When a black pilot from the famous Tuskeegee airmen is falsely accused of murdering a fellow prisoner, Lt. Hart tries his case and discovers the real motivation behind the ranking officer's kangaroo court.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prisons atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Tap Code shares never-before-told details of underground operations during the Vietnam War while weaving in an inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage as husband and wife endured the hardest circumstances they had ever faced. When Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965, he had no idea what horrors awaited him in the infamous Hoa Lo prison--nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." Harris was the sixth...
Publisher
Ergo Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Flossenburg, the "forgotten camp" was the third largest Nazi Concentration Camp in Germany. From 1938-1945, more than 100,000 inmates from all over Europe were imprisoned in the main camp and its more than 100 subcamps. As the U.S. Army closed in on the camp in April of 1945, the Nazis marched more thank 16,000 Jews on "Death Marches" under the harshest of conditions; thousands perished. Utilizing archival footage, the illustrations and diaries of...
20) We were each other's prisoners: an oral history of World War II American and German prisoners of war
Author
Publisher
BasicBooks
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request