prisoners of war

Tells the story of Andersonville, a Civil War prison camp in Georgia where thousands of Union prisoners died in the last fourteen months of the war, drawing from a variety of documents to consider whether the prison's commandant, Captain Henry Wirz, was justifiably convicted and hanged.

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.

Examines the disappearance of eight American airmen shot down and taken prisoner on the remote island of Chichi Jima in World War II and the secrecy that surrounded the events for decades, and discusses the violence inflicted by both sides in the Pacific war.

Discusses POWs in the Vietnam War, with photographs, including how soldiers and pilots were captured, the treatment they received, and the conditions within the Hanoi Hilton, such as torture and sleep deprivation, and covers improvements made after the death of Ho Chi Minh before the first release of a prisoner in 1973.

Crater Trueblood, doubting the justice of the war he fights and the evil of enemies he was trained to hate, brings Crescent, an apparently female Crowhopper, to Moontown as his prisoner but soon both are fugitives, fleeing prejudice and cruelty in hostile territory.

When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbr?ck, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.

Describes the disease, torture, and deprivation of both Allied and Filipino prisoners as they were forced to march several miles to prison camps in the Philippines in April 1942; with personal testimonies from some of those who survived.

Describes what it was like to be an American prisoner of war held by the Germans or Japanese during World War II, discussing the physical conditions, emotional turmoil, and difficult transition to freedom after harsh imprisonment.

John Kelly tries to juggle two assignments helping a friend and rescuing a group of prisoners in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp.

Describes how 230 French women of various ages and classes were accused of being members of the French Resistance and sent on a train to Auschwitz in January, 1943. Tells of how the accused women distributed leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid escaped Allied airmen, transported weapons, and passed messages. Draws on interviews with these women and their families; German, French, and Polish archives; and documents held by World War II resistance organizations.