prisoners of war

In 1812, Caroline and her mother make a dangerous trip to see her father who's a prisoner at a British fort. Caroline hopes to pass a secret message to her father to help him escape before it's too late. Includes historical information.

Fifteen-year-old African American Caleb Brown's commitment to justice and courage to protect it grow as he faces a power struggle with his father, fights to keep both his temper and self-respect in dealing with whites, and puzzles over the German prisoners of war brought to his rural Georgia community during World War II.

During the closing months of World War II, a fifteen-year-old German girl must decide whether or not to help an escaped Russian prisoner of war, despite the serious consequences if she does so.

When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.

In 1944, a fifteen-year-old Jewish boy tells his family he will travel in the West but instead enlists in the United States Air Corps and is subsequently taken prisoner by the Germans.

Chronicles the experiences of ninety-nine Army and Navy nurses who were captured when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American bases located in the Philippines.

U.S. Army pilot Michael J. Durant describes his harrowing experiences as a prisoner of war after his Blackhawk helicopter was shot down in Somalia in 1993.

Recounts the stories of astonishing escapes and escape attempts made during World War II from Colditz Castle, the POW camp reserved by the Third Reich for the most ingenious, persistent escape artists from lesser camps.