prisoners and prisons

When aspiring magician Maxine's family moves from New York City to Texas for her father's new job running a Nazi POW camp, Max hopes her tricks are enough to keep her busy. But when eleven Nazis escape the camp during one of her magic shows, Max gets a little more chaos than she expected.

During World War II, when the men in Gerda's family go to war, the German government sends them three French prisoners of war to work on their farm. Although they are under orders to treat the men as enemies, Gerda and her family manage to find ways to show them kindness and friendship. Based on a true story.

Combination of personal narratives and official documents describing deportation, incarceration, death, and survival in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany.

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.

"Tells the remarkable story of Royal Air Force technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met in an internment camp during WWII."--Provided by publisher.

Relates the story of the capture of United States Air Force Captain John Dramesi, who was shot down in 1967, taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese, escaped, and led the planning of Operation Thunderhead, which consisted of Navy SEALs and Underwater Demolition Teams who risked their lives in a classified rescue mission.

"Wachsmann offers an ... integrated account of the Nazi concentration camps from their inception in 1933 through their demise, seventy years ago, in the spring of 1945"--Amazon.com.

Retells the journey of an eighteen-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front, where he survives starvation, the brutal Russian winter, and Soviet labor camps.

Focuses on discrimination against Japanese Americans, relocation of Japanese Americans to internment camps during World War II, and camp conditions.

Tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sensed danger-warning her fellow prisoners of imminent attacks and, later, protecting them from brutal beatings. Frank and Judy's friendship, an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances, is one of the great recently uncovered stories of World War II.