prisoners and prisons

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.

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.