prisoners and prisons, german

While sailing a small boat from Boston to Norway, a former prisoner of war is able to come to terms with his imprisonment and torture by the Gestapo.

Memoir of a Hungarian woman who was imprisoned for several years in the German concentration camp Auschwitz.

Contains over one hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide biographical information about women of the Third Reich who participated in all aspects of World War Two on both sides of the Nazi flag.

Starting in January 1945, in the last months of the Third Reich, about 250,000 inmates of concentration camps perished on death marches and in countless incidents of mass slaughter. They were murdered with merciless brutality by their SS guards, by army and police units, and often by gangs of civilians as they passed through German and Austrian towns and villages. In this first comprehensive attempt to answer the questions raised by this final murderous rampage, the author draws on the testimonies of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders. In its exploration of a topic nearly neglected in the current history of the Shoah, this book offers unusual insight into the workings, and the unraveling, of the Nazi regime.

In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. But they were betrayed and when the Nazis ambushed them, only one man survived - Jan Baalsrud. This is the incredible and gripping story of his escape. Frostbitten and snowblind, pursued by the Nazis, he dragged himself on until he reached a small arctic village. He was near death, delirious, and a virtual cripple. But the villagers, at mortal risk to themselves, were determined to save him, and - through impossible feats - they did.

Chronicles the experiences of the eighteen men serving in lieutenant Lyle Bouck's intelligence platoon in the Ardennes forest of Belgium during the Battle of the Bulge in 1944.

Ned Handy was one of 4,300 American fliers shot down over Germany during World War II and dumped into Stalag 17. Handy and the men in his barracks would dig one of the Stalag's most memorable tunnels and find themselves quite unexpectedly at the center of Stalag 17's greatest drama.