prisoners and prisons

Presents the true story of the Allied WWII POWs of Oflag VI-B prison camp and their Operation Olympia, in which they disguised ladders as bookshelves then used them to go over the camp's fence.

Anatolian lovers Ali and Zeynep are separated when Ali makes his way to Canada only to be put in an internment camp when World War I starts. Meanwhile, Zeynep tries to survive the Armenien Genocide and find Ali.

A memoir of Ray Ellis, a former British artilleryman recounting his experiences in World War II as part of the Hussars, a unit characterized by rotten food, guns too old to function, chaos and disorganization, and squalid facilities amidst desert fighting in Egypt during a nine-month siege. Ellis was then captured by the Germans and held as a prisoner of war before he escaped to Italy.

Describes the establishment of Nazi concentration camps throughout Europe and their eventual use as a means of eliminating the Jews.

The true story of how Dieter Dengler, a US Navy pilot, led a daring mass escape from a prison camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War.

On August 15, 1953, the day of the Feast of Assumption--held in Elephant Park, Ohio--Rocco LaGrassa learns of his son's death while being held in a POW camp in Korea, and after catastrophic events at the festival decides to leave Elephant Park to seek out the family that abandoned him long ago.

The author, a Dutchman who escaped the Nazis in 1940, leaving his homeland for London, then Indonesia, chronicles his three and a half years as a prisoner of war to the Japanese, forced to build a railroad through the jungle on the border of Thailand and Burma.

Marta Nederman escapes a Nazi prison camp and meets Paul, an American soldier, but their plans for a life together end after Paul's plane crashes, leaving Marta alone and pregnant and forcing her to marry a British diplomat who brings Marta happiness and security, until a ghost from her past exposes a Communist spy in their midst.

Jim is an eleven-year-old British boy living in Shanghai in 1941. The Japanese take British citizens prisoner, and Jim is separated from his parents and forced to spend the next three years in Lunghus, a Japanese prison camp.

An American serviceman in the Korean War is captured and brainwashed by the Chinese. When he returns to the U.S. as a war hero, he begins to act on the mental programming directing him to assassinate an important political figure.