Prisoners of War Directory

Prisoners of War Links

CLIPPINGS

LINKS

ITEMS

9 visitors recommend:
American Nurses in the Philippines
Source: WorldWar2History.info
Author: Elizabeth M. Norman: What was it like to be a nurse on December 8, 1941 in the Philippines -- the day the Japanese began their attack?
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

12 visitors recommend:
The Michel Thomas Story
Source: WorldWar2History.info
Author: Michel Thomas: The personal stories of Michel Thomas' childhood facing anti-semitism in Poland, Germany, and France in the years before World War II.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
4 visitors recommend:
Deliverance It has Come: WWII POW Diary 1942-1945
Source: John S. Beaber
E-mail: tchers2@earthlink.net: Herman K. Beaber, a missionary, wrote a WWII POW Diary. This is a story of his fight to stay alive in a Japanese internment camp
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
3 visitors recommend:
Paul Chenevier: French WWII POW (French)
Source: Raphael QUERCIA
Country: France E-mail: raphael.quercia@gmail.com: This website deals with the experience and war memories and captivity of Paul Chenevier (Pontcharra, Isère, France), having committed volunteer to the 4th regiment of Genius in Grenoble on August 11th, 1939 and named corporal on January 22nd, 1940.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

5 visitors recommend:
O'Reilly's 'Auto'
Source: Bigwood.com
Country: Ireland: Extracts from an "auto," or autograph book, written by Irish Republican prisoners in 1922.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

9 visitors recommend:
Cybrary of the Holocaust
Source: Project ABE: A wealth of perspectives, images, personal accounts, and more about the Holocaust.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

4 visitors recommend:
Holocaust/Genocide Project
Source: iEARN
City: Cold Spring Harbor, State: NY: Aimed at students (ages 12 and up) and teachers.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

1 visitors recommend:
Great Escape movie poster
Source: AllPosters: Dramatic 27 in. x 40 in. color poster for the classic WWII prison camp escape adventure.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

4 visitors recommend:
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, 1941-1945
Source: Amazon
Author: John Glusman: The fierce, bloody battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the Philippines are legendary in the annals of World War II. Those who survived faced the horrors of life as prisoners of the Japanese. In Conduct Under Fire, John A. Glusman chronicles these events through the eyes of his father, Murray, and three fellow navy doctors captured on Corregidor in May 1942.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

15 visitors recommend:
Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Source: Amazon
Author: Hampton Sides: "The Bataan Death March was just the beginning of the woes American soldiers captured by the Japanese army in the Philippines had to endure .... For three years these "ghost soldiers" lived in misery, suffering terrible losses." (2001)
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
6 visitors recommend:
I Am Alive
Source: Random House
Author: Major Bruce H. Norton, USMC, (Ret.)
E-mail: bruce.norton@citadel.edu: The edited stories of Marine SgtMaj. Charles R. Jackson, a WWII POW. Jackson survived imprisonment, hellship, and forced labor in the bottom of a Mitsubishi Copper mine, for nearly four years.
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
1 visitors recommend:
Ships From Hell: Japanese War Crimes on the High Seas
Source: Sutton Publishing
Author: Raymond Lamont-Brown: "Using eyewitness accounts and official sources, this is a new and frightening insight into the atrocities committed at sea." (May 2002)
Would you recommend this to other visitors?

18 visitors recommend:
Escape From Sobibor (DVD)
Source: Jack Gold, director: The true story of a daring, successful escape from a Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Amazon reviewers give it 4.5 stars. (1987)
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
12 visitors recommend:
Von Ryan's Express (VHS)
Source: Mark Robson, director: Frank Sinatra leads a thrilling escape from a World War II POW camp in Italy. Amazon reviewers give it 4.5 stars. (1965)
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
10 visitors recommend:
The Hill (VHS)
Source: Sidney Lumet, director: Sean Connery stars in this powerful war movie set in a POW camp in Libya. Amazon reviewers give it 5 stars and glowing reviews. (1965)
Would you recommend this to other visitors?
6 visitors recommend:
Captive Hearts (DVD)
Source: Paul Almond, director: A captured American pilot falls in love with a Japanese girl. (1987)
Would you recommend this to other visitors?