prisoners and prisons

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.

Explores the escapes and rescues from World War II, focusing on accounts of different rescues from sea, land, and air.

A nonfiction graphic work of the story of men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III"--.

When Helene Hannemann awoke one May morning in 1943, she prepared for a normal day of taking the children to school and getting herself to work while her husband stayed home and tended to their youngest child. However, the relative peace of her quiet life was destroyed when Nazi soldiers order her family to be taken to a concentration camp because her husband was Romani. Though she was German and not order to go with them, she insisted and remained with them during their time at Auschwitz until their death in the gas chamber in 1944. Includes a chronology, a glossary, and text-related discussion questions.

"The...story of a secret FDR-approved prisoner exchange program run during World War II from Crystal City, Texas, an American internment camp where thousands of families were incarcerated"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the survival story of Louis Zamperini, a bomber pilot who spent 2 years in a prisoner of war camp during World War II.

"The story of a group of Allied POWs in WWI who dared to escape from Germany's most notorious prison camp, Holzminden"--Provided by publisher.

Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, a retired Marine Corps officer and winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor, shares the story of his experiences, along with his Black Sheep Squadron,fighting the air war in the Pacific during World War II, and discusses his struggles to survive after he was taken prisoner by the Japanese.

"Fourteen-year-old Lettie and her family are Afrikaners, Dutch settlers in turn-of-the-century southern Africa. When the British Empire wages a brief but brutal two-year war against them, Afrikaner forces will lose thirty-five hundred soldiers, but the toll on Dutch women and children will be eight times greater. Now a footnote, this period in history bears one particularly abhorrent distinction: the use of concentration camps three decades before Hitler. More than twenty-six thousand Dutch women and children will have died of disease and starvation in British concentration camps by the war's end. Taken from their farm and forced into one such camp, Lettie and her family fight to survive in the face of unimaginable conditions. Brave, defiant Lettie longs to be a writer. Enriched by fond memories of stargazing with her grandfather before the war and emboldened by her mother's strength in the face of so much hardship, Lettie is a courageous heroine who refuses to be bowed by adversity"--.

Born in Shanghai, China, in 1936, Judy is an English pointer who finds her place on a English gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River, battling pirates, contending with the Japanese occupiers, and protecting her human shipmates--until they all end up in a Japanese prison camp in Sumatra at the beginning of World War II, where every day is a struggle to survive.