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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... Læs mere
The story of one man’s escape from Stalin’s genocide to heroism in the skies
A young Jewish veteran of the United States Merchant Marine gets caught up in efforts to assist the new state of Israel, undergoes a... Læs mere
Offering harrowing stories of combat, this memoir reveals the horrors of confinement and the despair of skin-of-the-teeth survival; and remembers camaraderie in the face of German abuse. It is also a story of postwar reconciliation, both psychological and social.
On December 14, 1944, Japanese soldiers massacred 139 of 150 American POWs. This biography tells the story of Glenn (""Mac"") McDole, one of 11 young men who escaped and the last man out of Palawan Prison Camp 10A.
The dramatic story of the Newton brothers, SOE agents in Nazi-occupied France during the Second World War
The incredible story of the largest POW prisoner of war escape in of the Second World War – organized by ordinary men who did something extraordinary.
Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hostilities in uniform.
The true story of a son who discovered the unspoken truths of his parents lives after their deaths, including the incredible story of his father’s escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland and his daring journey across Europe in a bid for freedom.
This is the previously untold story of the brave Lancastrians who endured the Fall of Singapore, and their subsequent incarceration at Keijo POW camp in Korea, told by Chris Given-Wilson, whose father was one of those captured.
‘We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis’ evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to survive.’