prisoners and prisons

Lucky Luciano is slipped out of prison during World War II as a part of an effort to get the Italian peasantry to revolt against the Nazi German occupiers and aid the invading American units.

Describes the imprisonment, friendship, and release of two Vietnam prisoners of war, Fred Cherry, the first African-American officer captured by the Vietnamese, and Porter Halyburton, a racist southerner, and how they overcame their differences to survive.

Examines the interrogation methods and practices used against Al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 attack against America and reveals how they were able to elicit key intelligence information, some of the mistakes made, and abuses against prisoners.

Deanna Germain recounts the experiences she had while serving as a nursing supervisor treating Iraqi prisoners in need of medical attention at Abu Ghraib.

A biography of Noor Inayat Khan, the daughter of an Indian mystic living in France who would become a secret agent for the British in occupied France during World War II.

For fourteen-year-old budding artist Minoru Ito, her two brothers, her friends, and the other members of the Japanese-American community in southern California, the three months since Pearl Harbor was attacked have become a waking nightmare: attacked, spat on, and abused with no way to retaliate--and now things are about to get worse, their lives forever changed by the mass incarcerations in the relocation camps.

"The story of three downed British airmen who mastermind an elaborate, rollicking escape from a WWI German POW camp"--Provided by publisher.

Collection of photographs taken at the sites of the ten American detention camps to which 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were sent during World War II, accompanied by text that tells the story of the camps from the perspective of former internees.

Combines the diaries and memoirs of Virginia D'Albert-Lake to describe the anti-Nazi French Resistance member's World War II experiences in France and a prison camp.