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1	Flyboys: A True Story of Courage more books like this by James Bradley add to wishlist In this WW II history, FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS author Bradley tells the story of nine Americans who were shot down and taken prisoner by the Japanese. He tells of their training and background, and deals with issues of war, racial attitudes, atrocities, and retribution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Baa Baa Black Sheep more books like this by Gregory Boyington add to wishlist The World War II air war in the Pacific needed tough men like Colonel Pappy Boyington and his Black Sheep Squadron. The legendary Marine Corps officer and his bunch of misfits, outcasts, and daredevils gave new definition to "hell-raising" - on the ground and in the skies. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.83! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	To End All Wars: A True Story about the Will to Survive and the Courage to Forgive more books like this by Ernest Gordon add to wishlist The best-selling classic of the power of love and forgiveness in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. see all copies from $4.40! new only from $4.40! \| first editions \| SVS
4	King Rat more books like this by James Clavell add to wishlist Clavell's adventure novel takes place in a World War II prison camp, Changi, where 8,000 English, Australian, and American prisoners of war are incarcerated. Left largely to themselves, the prisoners establish a hierarchy of power in which a brutal American corporal, known as King Rat, rises to the top. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.94! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	A Tale of Two Subs: An Untold Story of World War II, Two Sister Ships, and Extraordinary Heroism more books like this by Jonathan J McCullough add to wishlist In 1943, the sub USS Sculpin, under attack by the Japanese, sank for the last time in what becaome one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. Naval history. Not only did several crew survive the sinking - an extremely rare event in WW II sub warfare - but several were aboard a Japanese aircraft carrier en route to a POW camp, when it was torpedoed ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $7.94! \| first editions \| SVS
6	My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March more books like this by Lester I Tenney add to wishlist Captured by the Japanese after the Philippines fell, Lester Tenney was among the few to survive the legendary Bataan Death March. He witnessed fellow POWs die by the hundreds from thirst, wounds, disease, and the Japanese guards' savage mistreatment. Armed only with his sense of humor, sharp mind, and fierce determination, Tenney then endured ... see all copies from $2.10! new only from $7.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark Force at Rabaul Australia's Worst Military Disaster of World War II more books like this by Bruce Gamble add to wishlist At 2.30 am on January 23, 1942, the little-known tropical island of New Britain was the site of the Australian Army's darkest hour. Lark Force, 1,400 men and six nurses, the bulk of them from 2/22nd Infantry Battalion, had been deployed to fortify and defend Rabaul, the capital of Australia's mandated territories. The Japanese had other plans.. see all copies from $4.83! new only from $13.45! \| first editions
8	Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific more books like this by Gavan Daws add to wishlist Over 140,000 Allied prisoners were taken by the Japanese during World War II. Based on hundreds of interviews with those who survived, here are the harrowing, moving recollections of Americans before, during, and after their capture--men whose ordeal has been overlooked by independent historians and purposely ignored by official accounts. 16 pages ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.15! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Prisoner of the Rising Sun more books like this by William A Berry, James Edwin Alexander, PH.D. add to wishlist Taken prisoner after the infamous Battle of Corregidor, Berry attained a rare status: that of someone who escaped from a Japanese prison camp--and lived to tell about it. Berry's tale of capture, escape, recapture, and punishment is vividly recounted with drama, candor, and courage. Illustrations. Maps. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Forgotten Raiders of '42: The Fate of the Marines Left Behind on Makin more books like this by Tripp Wiles add to wishlist On October 16, 1942, on Kwajalein Atoll, at the fringe of the Japanese Empire, members of the Imperial Japanese Navy's 6th Base Unit ceremonially beheaded nine Marines from the 2nd Raider Battalion. The captives held no hopes for pardon or for rescue as they walked blindfolded, one by one, to the spot of execution, which also became their burial ... see all copies from $2.65! new only from $4.32! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Hidden Horrors: Japanese War Crimes in World War II more books like this by Toshiyuki Tanaka, John W Dower (Foreword by) add to wishlist This book documents for the first time previously hidden Japanese atrocities in World War II, including cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of noncombatants; and biological warfare experiments.Based on exhaustive research in previously closed archives, this book represents a ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $9.76! \| signed copies \| first editions
12	Baa Baa Black Sheep more books like this by Pappy Boyington add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II more books like this by Louis Zamperini, David Rensin, John McCain (Foreword by) add to wishlist Athletically gifted, Louis Zamperini propelled himself from the tough streets of Southern California to the 1936 Berlin Olympics, and to an NCAA mile record at USC that stood for 20 yeas. When war came he left the track for a B24 - a move that would have heartbreaking consequences. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Miracle on the River Kwai more books like this by Ernest Gordon add to wishlist This is the true story behind the film, "The Bridge on the River Kwai". It tells of the march into the jungle to build the bridge. It is a story of the triumph of faith over despair. see all copies from $11.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Captured on Corregidor: Diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II more books like this by John M Wright add to wishlist On graduating from West Point in 1940, Lieutenant John Wright was assigned to Corregidor, Philippine Islands. Captured there by the Japanese, he endured three and a half years of POW conditions described in subsequent war crimes trials as the worst of World War II. This book is built around a diary he smuggled through countless inspections during ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $37.69! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 more books like this by Brian MacArthur add to wishlist During World War II, there were few fates that could befall a soldier so hellish as internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To this day, many survivors–most of whom are in their eighties–still cannot talk about their experiences without unearthing terrible memories. Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account more books like this by William E Dyess, Charles Leavelle (Introduction by), Stanley L Falk (Introduction by) add to wishlist The hopeless yet determined resistance of American and Filipino forces against the Japanese invasion has made Bataan and Corregidor symbols of pride, but Bataan has a notorious darker side. After the U.S.-Filipino remnants surrendered to a far stronger force, they unwittingly placed themselves at the mercy of a foe who considered itself unimpaired ... see all copies from $9.49! new only from $12.67! \| SVS
18 view cover	To the Kwai-And Back: War Drawings 1939-1945 more books like this by Ronald Searle add to wishlist In 1939, as an art student, Ronald Searle volunteered for the army, embarking for Singapore in 1941. Within a month of his arrival there, however, he became a prisoner of the Japanese, and after 14 months in a prisoner-of-war camp, was sent north to a work camp on the Burma Railway. In May 1944, he was sent to the notorious Changi Gaol in ... see all copies from $5.97! new only from $21.00! \| first editions
19	Through the Valley of the Kwai more books like this by Ernest Gordon add to wishlist see all copies from $6.98! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	The war diaries of Weary Dunlop : Java and the Burma-Thailand railway 1942-1945 more books like this by E. E. Dunlop add to wishlist More than 40 years ago Sir Edward Dunlop, then a Lieutenant-Colonel, began these diaries at the start of his imprisonment by the Japanese in Java and on the Burma-Thailand railway. His meticulous observations of prison camp life were concealed all through the war, and by the time peace came in 1945, he carried with him a unique record of the lives ... see all copies from $11.88! new only from $31.68! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Escape from Corregidor more books like this by Edgar D. Whitcomb add to wishlist see all copies from $9.69! new only from $54.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas: The Firsthand Account of an American Couple Interned by the Japanese in Manila, 1942-45 more books like this by Emily Van Sickle add to wishlist A gripping eyewitness account of internment during World War 2 in the Philippines. Emily and husband Charles Van Sickle were trapped in Manila after its surrender to the Japanese in 1942. They were incarcerated in the vast 48-acre campus of Santo Tomas University which was enclosed on three sides by high concrete walls and iron bars. Van Sickle ... see all copies from $9.40! new only from $13.72! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	I Am Alive!: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World War II Japanese POW Camp more books like this by Charles Jackson, Bruce H Norton, Major add to wishlist Acclaimed military historian Norton presents this long-forgotten memoir by a Marine captured in the spring of 1942 and interned for three devastating years by the Japanese. Jackson describes the fierce yet impossible battle for Corregidor and the lethal reality of the POW camps. Original. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
24 view cover	Proof Through the Night: A B-29 Pilot Captive in Japan more books like this by K P Burke (As Told by) add to wishlist A gripping addition to WWII literature. Little-known history of the B-29 in India and China and a pilot's thirteen months of captivity in Japan. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
25	Surrender and Survival: The Experience of American POW's in the Pacific, 1941-1945 more books like this by E Bartlett Kerr add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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