prisoners and prisons

Recounts the efforts of eight European and Asian children during World War II as they fought the war in their own way by distributing an underground newspaper, saving a downed fighter pilot, and experiencing displacement from their homes.

Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called "Out-With" in 1942, Bruno, the son of a Nazi officer, befriends a boy in striped pajamas who lives behind a wire fence. Based on the book by John Boyne.

The author relates her experiences from 1941-1953 as she struggles to survive as a Russian teenager caught up in all the horrors of World War II and its aftermath.

Recounts the author's experiences as a POW captured by the Japanese and forced to help build a railroad through the jungle on the Burmese-Thailand border.

Provides background on the Korean War, a conflict in which the U.S. fought to keep South Korea free from communism, and describes the experiences of American soldiers who were taken prisoner by enemy troops from North Korea and China.

A collection of concentration camp stories originally written in Poland in the 1940s by author Tadeusz Borowski, a member of the Polish People's Army during World War II, and a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau.

Janis Karpinski, the first female general to command American troops in a combat zone, recounts the events surrounding the abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that ruined her career.

Presents relevant information about the abuse Iraqi prisoners faced at the hands of the U.S. military, with excerpts from the official Abu Ghraib Report, the Jones/Fay Investigation, photographs of the abuse, and key primary documents.

Presents a collection of documents and reports in which U.S. government officials wrote to prepare the way for the interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib prison.