prisoners and prisons, german

Lieutenant Tommy Hart, a prisoner at the fiercely guarded Stalag Luft 13 in Bavaria in 1942, faces a moral dilemma when he is called upon to defend African-American Tuskegee airman Lincoln Scott, who has been accused of the brutal murder of a fellow prisoner.

A memoir in which Genevieve de Gaulle, the niece of General Charles de Gaulle, discusses her experiences after joining the French Underground in 1940 at the age of nineteen where she spent three years before being arrested and shipped to the Nazi death camp, Ravensbruck.

Not realizing the probable length of World War II, her English parents left Antonia Lyon-Smith behind in Brittany in 1939 at age 14.

A first-person account of a turbulent journey through war-torn Europe and Nazi concentration camps.

Provides background on the Holocaust and tells the stories of individuals who escaped from Auschwitz, Sobibor, Colditz, and occupied territories to survive the war. Includes an annotated bibliography and further reading list.

A World War II escape narrative, telling the story of how Jan Baalsrud, a member of a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos who were ambushed on their way to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance, managed to evade the Nazis and make his way to a small arctic village whose residents were determined to save him.

Presents the true story of Howard DeMallie, a young American pilot who, along with his crew were forced to bail out of their B-17 over occupied Holland during World War II, helped by the Dutch underground, and imprisoned in a German prisoner of war camp.