For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan. It ended with the surrender of 76,000 Filipinos and Americans, the single largest defeat in American military history. The defeat, though, was only the ...
Set during the Korean War and written in the form of a memoir, Ha Jin's novel centers on a Chinese soldier named Yu Yuan, who is captured and taken to an American POW camp. There, though he is well-treated by the Americans, he finds that another war is going on, between the Communist prisoners and the nationalists. Yu finds himself being used by ...
A former Navy Seal and Vietnam vet returns to Vietnam to rescue American soldiers who were presumed killed in action, but are actually being brutally interrogated. He is also searching for a band of drug smugglers who have been threatening his new lady love.
In this gripping account, the author recounts how, in 1941, he and six fellow prisoners escaped from a Siberian labor camp and trekked across frozen Siberia, China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and finally over the Himalayas to safety in India. Without a map or a compass, carrying nothing but an ax, a knife, and a tiny amount of food, they walked for ...
Twelve-year-old Patty Bergen is a lonely girl growing up in a small Arkansas town during World War II. Ignored by her parents, Patty is desperate for the company of someone who will treat her with kindness and respect. When she discovers an escaped German prisoner of war, Patty, a Jewish girl, sees him as a person, rather than an enemy, and gives ...
This work offers a shattering account of an Auschwitz prisoner who worked for more than two years in the gassing installations and crematoria and lived to tell about it.
Selected as one of USA Today's 100 Best Spiritual Books of the Century, this astonishing autobiography tells the gripping, heroic story of the early life of Jacques Lusseyran, an inspiring individual who overcame the limitations of physical blindness by attending -- literally -- to the light within his own mind. Through faith in the connection ...
'With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the ...
In this thrilling journey through the jungles of Burma, Smith explores the far-reaching effects of World War II, while introducing readers to the fascinating world of wild timber elephants and their "mahouts."
Having lost her husband, her parents, and her two young sons to the Nazi exterminators, Olga Lengyel had little to live for during her seven-month internment in Auschwitz. Only Lengyel's work in the prisoners' underground resistance and the need to tell this story kept her fighting for survival. She survived by her wit and incredible strength. ...
Helen's distant Navy SEAL husband, Gabe, has been missing for a year and is now presumed dead. While she grieves over his death, she is surprised by her newfound clarity, she doesn't need him to survive, and she and her daughter are fine without him. Then she learns Gabe has been found but has no memory of their life together, or of her. As Gabe ...
Thorsness joined the US Air Force in 1951 at age 18 and became a jet pilot during the Vietnam War. During a 1967 mission he was shot down over North Vietnam. Injured and captured, he spent six years in the Hanoi Hilton. This book tells the harrowing story of captivity, as told by the man who lived it.
Deep inside Iraqi territory, a U.S. Army helicopter on a medical rescue mission was shot down with eight Americans aboard. Five of them were killed instantly; the three survivors were captured by Hussein's Republican Guard. One of the survivors was Maj. Rhonda Cornum, who was imprisoned with two broken arms, a smashed knee, and a bullet wound. ...
Provides evidence that American POWs were left behind at the end of the Vietnam War and that the American Government has regularly thwarted the efforts of private citizens to discover the truth. The book delves into a world of secret information, anonymous sources and censored testimony.
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.
This "New York Times" bestseller tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down over the Pacific. One of them, George H.W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. This edition features the same Afterword by the author that appeared in the trade paperback edition.
The Rumsfeld Memo authorized controversial interrogation practices that migrated to Guantanamo, Afghanistan, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere. Sands investigates how the memo set the stage for a divergence from the Geneva Convention and the Torture Convention, and he holds the Bush administration accountable.
Among the many horrors of the Vietnam War, some of the most brutal and, until now, least documented were the experiences of the American prisoners of war, many of whom endured the longest wartime captivity, of any POWs in U.S. history. With this book, two of the most respected scholars in the field offer a comprehensive, balanced, and ...
This account of one soldier's experience as a translator at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba, where Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters were held, offers a rarely seen first-person look at how the facility operates--and includes allegations that interrogation procedures may have crossed the line into torture. Sgt. Erik Saar (now a civilian) ...
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 ...
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