prisoners of war

A biography of the German Protestant pastor whose resistance to the Nazi regime led to his imprisonment and execution.

A translation of the account, first published in 1946, of three former prisoners' experiences in Auschwitz; includes a glossary of Auschwitz terminology.

Chronicles the true experiences of John Henry Poncio who survived the Bataan Death March in the spring of 1942 and spent the remainder of the war in a Japanese POW camp first in the Philippines, then later at Hirohata in Japan.

Zenji Watanabe, seventeen, is sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II and, after he is captured and tortured, must find a way to survive months of being lost in the jungle behind enemy lines.

This magnificently evocative novel based on the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer will introduce readers to a courageous Christian who joined the underground convinced that it was his duty to work for Hitler's defeat. In this, her first novel, Mary Glazener has captured the warmth, humanity, and intrigue of this young German pastor and theologian who at thirty-nine years of age was executed by the Nazis at Flossenburg concentration camp on April 9, 1945, for his part in the "Officers' Plot." This highly readable work combines the essence of many stories of World War II---namely, the Church's struggle to survive the Third Reich; a family's commitment to save each other, their neighbors, and Germany; an extraordinary friendship between a teacher and his student; a resistance movement, filled with risk, espionage, and repeated set backs; and the many Christians and Germans who risked their lives to save the Jews.

A riveting and reflective account by one of the millions of anonymous soldiers who fought and died in that cruel terrain, this book conveys the brutality and horrors of the Eastern Front in detail never before available in English.

The first eyewitness report of the Holocaust to record the horror of the camps from their inception in 1941 to liberation. Considered one of the definitive books on Auschwitz.

Eric Lomax was in Malaya during World War II and was taken prisoner and put to work on the infamous Burma-Siam Railway After the radio he illicitly helped build was discovered, he was subjected to two years of torture. He never forgot the interpreter at these sessions. At the end of the war he returned to England. Fifty years later he learned the interpreter was still alive. Moving beyond bitterness with the help of his wife, and knowing that he had to find some peace, he found out the man was still alive and they met once again.

Margarete Dos moved with her family to Berlin on the eve of World War II. She and her little brother were blindly ushered into a generation of Hitler Youth. The teenage Margarete was preoccupied with school, friends, boys, and sports but she was also aware of a growing air of secrecy and fear among her elders and she struggled to make sense of it all. She lost her brother to the army, treated wounded boy soldiers for the German Red Cross, and ran scared through the streets as Allied bombs decimated her city. Just when she thought the worse was over and she and her mother were on a train to Sweden, they were suddenly rerouted deep into Russia. Margarete survived the war but the wartime tragedies she experienced would haunt her for the rest of her life.