prisoners of war

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K.I.A.

A Dr. Kel Mckelvey Novel
2008
Dedicated military forensics investigator Kel McKelvey is called upon to apply his exhaustive scrutiny in a case involving suspicious coroners and desperate criminals.

The charm school

1998
A young American tourist stumbles onto a giant Soviet secret--a school for KGB agents that uses MIA/POWs from Vietnam as instructors. The American embassy becomes involved when, in a panic, the tourist calls them and then disappears.

Beyond paradise

1999
Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country in 1941.

Nightmare memoir

four years as a prisoner of the Nazis
1987

Evidence not seen

a woman's miraculous faith in a Japanese prison camp during WWII
1988

Great escapes

2012
Explores examples of escape attempts during wars throughout history, looking at the circumstances that led to the imprisonments and escapes, the methods individuals used to get away, and the bravery exhibited in these situations.

Portals to hell

military prisons of the Civil War
1997

The mullah's storm

2011
When Michael Parson, a navigator, and Sergeant Gold, an Army interpreter, are shot down over Afghanistan while transporting an important Taliban detainee, they are forced to survive amid the dangers of the Taliban, villagers of uncertain allegiance, and an uncooperative prisoner.

Life behind barbed wire

the secret World War II photographs of prisoner of war Angelo M. Spinelli
2004
Offers 100 photographs and commentary on an American soldier's life in a German prison camp during World War II.

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