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1) Hart's war
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Honor, courage, and sacrifice are revealed in unexpected ways as a ranking U.S. prisoner in a Nazi POW camp is joined in December 1944 by a law-student lieutenant who'd been captured despite his father's powerful military connections.
2) Unbroken.
Language
English
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Olympian and war hero Louis Zamperini survived in a raft for 47 days after a near-fatal plane crash in WWII, only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Ninety-year-old widow Rachel Matson, paralyzed by a debilitating illness, does not let her infirmary keep her from launching an investigation when she happens to spot an antique pistol--one of a pair she gave to her late husband upon his return from World War II--showcased on a television program.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
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.
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, over 200,000 prisoners of war of many nationalities were brought to Britain to be held in the infamous prison hulks, land prisons and parole depots. Many prisoners languished in captivity for over eleven years. This book tells the story of these men and women. Hell Upon Water examines how prisoners of war were acquired by the British, how they were fed, clothed and accommodated by the Transport...
Publisher
Eumenes Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
We Prisoners of War: Sixteen British Officers and Soldiers Speak from a German Prison Camp , first published in 1941, is a collection of brief essays written by POWs held in Germany during the early days of World War II. As noted in the Preface: Two years after the outbreak of hostilities, more than four million men are prisoners of war. They are living behind barbed-wire fences in all parts of the world ... What thoughts are in the minds of these...
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Series
Publisher
Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union's sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known as Johnson's Island. With a large amount of fallen timber, forty acres of cleared land, and its proximity to Sandusky, Ohio, Johnson's Island seemed the...
15) The way back
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt to escape from a brutal Siberian gulag.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
"Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
18) Prisoners of war
Author
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
c1981
Language
English
Description
Documents the experiences of prisoners of war of all nationalities during the Second World War.
19) The great escape
Publisher
MGM/UA Home Video
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
The true story of 76 allied airmen who plot a massive escape from Stalag 3, a maximum security prison in World War II. They struggle against overwhelming odds to obtain freedom.
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Language
English
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December 1944: Deep in the Ardennes forest, a platoon of eighteen men under the command of twenty year old lieutenant Lyle Bouck huddle in their foxholes. Under attack and vastly outnumbered, they repulse three German assaults in a fierce day long battle, killing over five hundred Germans. Only when Bouck's men run out of ammunition do they surrender. As POWs, Bouck's platoon experience an ordeal far worse than combat: trigger-happy German guards,...
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