prisoners and prisons

Describes the gallant struggle of an Air Force pilot shot down over Laos in 1967.

Examines the controversial topic of Japanese-American internment camps by presenting fifteen primary and secondary documents on the topic, with introductions providing contextual information. Also includes an extensive further-reading list.

Discusses POWs in the Vietnam War, with photographs, including how soldiers and pilots were captured, the treatment they received, and the conditions within the Hanoi Hilton, such as torture and sleep deprivation, and covers improvements made after the death of Ho Chi Minh before the first release of a prisoner in 1973.

Presents a detailed account of the relocation and internment of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor and America's entry into World War II.

Describes what it was like to be an American prisoner of war held by the Germans or Japanese during World War II, discussing the physical conditions, emotional turmoil, and difficult transition to freedom after harsh imprisonment.

Examines the history of the Japanese American internment camps, including Japanese American communities before Pearl Harbor, life and the conditions inside the camps, and how those detained returned to their lives.

Presents twenty-two eyewitness accounts of events in the Nazi death camps, covering arrivals at the camps, work detail, survival and daily life, confrontation of death, the perspectives of Germans, and liberation.

The author, an Italian citizen of the Jewish race, provides an account of his ten months at Auschwitz, where he was sent in 1943 after being deported from his native Turin.