Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973
Even if you don't know much about the war in Vietnam, you've probably heard of "The Hanoi Hilton," or Hoa Lo Prison, where captured U.S. soldiers were held. What they did there and whether they were treated well or badly by the Vietnamese became lasting controversies. As military personnel returned from captivity in 1973, Americans became
More than 170,000 British prisoners of war (POWs) were taken by German and Italian forces during the Second World War. Guests of the Third Reich will provide an overview of what daily life was like for prisoners, from staging theatre productions to keep morale up to working allotments and planning audacious escape attempts.
ISBN-13: 9781912423064
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Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
A Diary of Life as a Hong Kong Prisoner of War, 1941-1945
I cant visualise us getting out of this, but I want to TRY to believe in a future, wrote 23-year-old Barbara Anslow (then Redwood) in her diary on 8th December 1941, a few hours after Japan first attacked Hong Kong. Barbaras 1941-1945 diaries (with post-war explanations where necessary) are an invaluable source of information on the civilian ......
Laboratory of the Devil, Auschwitz of the East (Japanese Biological Warf
This book exposes Unit 731 as being the largest bacterial warfare force in the history of WW2. Manufacture and the use of biological weapons, the entire process of preparation and implementation of germ warfare, with the reflection on war and human nature, medical and ethical issues, is given by the testimony of the veterans of Unit 731.
This book examines reasons for the horrific cruelty of members of the Japanese in Nanking, China in 1937; the German Einsatzgruppen in Russia, from 1941-1943; the Russian Army in Dresden, Germany in 1945; the Americans at Nogunri, Korea in 1950; the Americans at My Lai, Vietnam in 1968; and the Americans at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq in 2004.
In February 1944 an American infantry company lost its way behind enemy lines near Anzio, Italy, and Jack Dower and his comrades would spend the remainder of the war in captivity. With candor and humor, Dower describes his nearly fifteen months as an unwilling guest of the Third Reich in this rare memoir of life as a WWII prisoner of war.
