prisoners of war

Provides an account of the prison break that occurred on February 9, 1864, when 109 Union officers escaped the Confederate's Libby Prison in Richmond, Virginia, and made their way to Washington, D.C., where their account of their experiences in Libby led to a new cycle of retaliation against Rebel captives.

This is a biography of a Vietnam war hero and a U.S. senator who vows to keep up the fight for campaign reform.

This A-to-Z reference book presents nearly 300 entries that survey the history of prisoners of war and interned civilians from the earliest times to the present, with emphasis on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Green Beret Lieutenant Rowe was captured in 1963 in Vietnam. This is the story of his imprisonment in a POW camp and his escape.

Describes the gallant struggle of an Air Force pilot shot down over Laos in 1967.

The chilling World War II memoir of Marine Sergeant Charles Jackson describes the fierce battle for Corregidor, his capture in 1942 by the Japanese, and his horrifying three-year ordeal in a POW camp as a prisoner of the Japanese.

Filip M?ller discusses his experiences working in the gassing installations and crematoria at Auschwitz where he was imprisoned from April 1942 to November 1944.

Chronicles the experiences of the Union prisoners of war who died at Andersonville Prison from February 1864 to May 1865.