prisoners and prisons

Paul Gunn served as a U.S. Naval Aviator during World War I. After twenty-one years of service, Gunn retired and started a privately-owned airline in the Philippines. But when World War II erupted, Gunn's wife and four children were imprisoned by the Japanese, and Gunn would stop at nothing to get them back.

A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.

The author shares her experiences as a child when her family was relocated along with other Japanese American citizens during World War II and held for the duration of the war at the Amache (or Granada) internment camp in Colorado.

Presents the letters of army nurse and prisoner of war Marcia Gates during World War Two.

When aspiring magician Maxine's family moves from New York City to Texas for her father's new job running a Nazi POW camp, Max hopes her tricks are enough to keep her busy. But when eleven Nazis escape the camp during one of her magic shows, Max gets a little more chaos than she expected.

During World War II, when the men in Gerda's family go to war, the German government sends them three French prisoners of war to work on their farm. Although they are under orders to treat the men as enemies, Gerda and her family manage to find ways to show them kindness and friendship. Based on a true story.

Combination of personal narratives and official documents describing deportation, incarceration, death, and survival in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a prisoner at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria in 1942, faces a moral dilemma when he is called upon to defend African-American Tuskegee airman Lincoln Scott, who has been accused of the brutal murder of a fellow prisoner.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence.

Set in Poland during World War II. Inoocent and naive 8-year-old Bruno is bored and restless in his new home. Ignoring his mother, he sets off on an adventure in the woods. He comes across a high fence which separates him from the people he can see through it. Soon he meets and young boy in striped pajamas, and a surprising friendship develops.