prisoners and prisons

Documents the experiences of prisoners of war of all nationalities during the Second World War.

Six million human beings, murdered in the name of racial purity. The Holocaust is the grisly story of how six million Jews, along with millions of other innocent people, were systematically brutalized and butchered by the Nazis.

Contains source documents and illustrations that provide information about the Japanese-American internment during World War II, covering Pearl Harbor and anti-Japanese bias, evacuation and internment, life in the camps, legal battles, and remembrance and redress. Includes critical-thinking questions.

Provides information about the Vietnam War and describes the experiences of U.S. soldiers and civilians who were prisoners of war during the conflict.

Describes the abuse inflicted on prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison by American soldiers in 2003, chronicles the events that followed the breaking of the scandal in May 2004, and discusses the scandal's impact on U.S. relations with Middle Eastern countries.

Nick endures servitude, beatings, and more after his British father's plantation in Burma is invaded by the Japanese in 1941, and when his father and others are taken prisoner and Nick is stranded with his friend Mya, they plan a daring escape on elephants, risking their lives to save Nick's father and Mya's brother from a Japanese prisoner of war camp.

Tells the true story of Navy pilot Dieter Dengler who led and organized an escape from a P.O.W. camp in the Laotian jungle and returned to his aircraft carrier, emaciated and ill, six months after being shot down.

A World War II escape narrative, telling the story of how Jan Baalsrud, a member of a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos who were ambushed on their way to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance, managed to evade the Nazis and make his way to a small arctic village whose residents were determined to save him.

Describes the mass murder of Jewish people during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945, and includes statistics from several concentration camps totalling the death of over three million persons.