prisoners and prisons, japanese

The author recounts his three and a half years as a prisoner of the Japanese during World War II.

The author, an Indonesian woman, describes the three years she spent, beginning at age twelve, disguised as a boy in order to avoid becoming a "comfort woman" to Japanese soldiers in a prison camp during World War II.

Army pilot William E. Dyess describes his time in and escape from a prisoner of war camp on the Bataan peninsula during World War II.

The author presents the story of her great-grandmother Lilla's life growing up in a privileged family in North China and the cookbook she composed at age sixty while held prisoner by the Japanese during World War Two.

Chronicles the experiences of ninety-nine Army and Navy nurses who were captured when the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked the American bases located in the Philippines.

A biography of Olympic runner and World War II bombardier, Louis Zamperini, who had been rambunctious in childhood before succeeding in track and eventually serving in the military, which led to a trial in which he was forced to find a way to survive in the open ocean after being shot down.

The author reveals a first-hand account of her and her family's experiences when they and other Dutch residents on the island of Java, were captured by the Japanese in 1942 and taken to a prison camp where they spent over three years.