prisoners and prisons

An account of the escape of almost one hundred British prisoners of war from a German prison camp in 1944.

Tells what happened to American MIAs of the Vietnam War, based on secret files from Vietnam and the U.S.

Japanese American Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston shares the story of her family's experiences living at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II, and discusses the influences of those early years in forced detention on the rest of her life.

The author recounts his three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.

Discusses life in a Nazi concentration camp, including typical conditions in the camps, daily life, organization and implementation, extermination through labor, and surviving against all odds.

Describes the events leading to the internment of Japanese Americans in camps during World War II, life in the camps, world war and their release.

Records the history of the Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka death camps in Nazi-occupied Poland from their construction in 1941 to their destruction in 1943, and tells the stories of the people who operated the camps, as well as the inmates, most of whom were gassed in what was known as Operation Reinhard.

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.

A memoir in which Genevieve de Gaulle, the niece of General Charles de Gaulle, discusses her experiences after joining the French Underground in 1940 at the age of nineteen where she spent three years before being arrested and shipped to the Nazi death camp, Ravensbruck.