prisoners of war

Offers an alternate history of World War II, in which the Japanese Empire takes over the Hawaiian islands, forcing soldiers into POW camps and striking terror throughout the United States.

The author, a Dutchman who escaped the Nazis in 1940, leaving his homeland for London, then Indonesia, chronicles his three and a half years as a prisoner of war to the Japanese, forced to build a railroad through the jungle on the border of Thailand and Burma.

Chronicles the attempts by the Bush administration to extend the bounds of presidential authority while limiting official culpability, maintaining that they have not provided a complete explanation for their detention policy.

An American serviceman in the Korean War is captured and brainwashed by the Chinese. When he returns to the U.S. as a war hero, he begins to act on the mental programming directing him to assassinate an important political figure.

For the 400 American soldiers who escaped the Bataan Death March and hundreds of others who refused to surrender, escaping the Bataan Peninsula to Luzon was a life-or-death journey; among the local families who risked their lives to provide food and shelter to fleeing American soldiers were Bill and Martin Fassoth.