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Denis Avey · 272 pages
The Colditz Story
P.R. Reid · 252 pages
A realistic portrayal of life as a prisoner of war based on Reid’s own experiences as a prisoner in Colditz Castle, a high security German P.O.W. camp during WW2.
The Wooden Horse
Eric Williams · 264 pages
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages
On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se
Three Came Home
Agnes Newton Keith · 304 pages
"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately before the Japanese invasion in 1942, and her subsequent internment and suffering, separated from her husband Harry, and with a young son to care for. Keith was
The Railway Man
Eric Lomax · 288 pages
Four Perfect Pebbles: A Holocaust Story
Lila Perl, Marion Blumenthal Lazan · 130 pages
The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill · 241 pages
The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom by Corrie ten Boom, John Sherrill, Elizabeth Sherrill (Goodreads Author) "At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister a
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East
Alistair Urquhart
Dresden: A Survivor's Story
Victor Gregg · 64 pages
Out of the Depths: An Unforgettable WWII Story of Survival, Courage, and the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
Edgar Harrell, David Harrell · 189 pages
"A WWII hero's courageous, inspiring true story of survival against all odds after the sinking of the USS Indianapolis"--
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman, Elizabeth M. Norman · 463 pages
Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation, dehydr
The Sergeant in the Snow
Mario Rigoni Stern · 157 pages
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom
Slavomir Rawicz · 240 pages
This book is a real good read as they say. I found it on the sad side...even brings a tear to your eye. This book should be relegated to the fiction section of the library. There is much in Rawicz's story that makes no sense. For example, Rawicz admitted that he had come out of the USSR with the Poles who were released after the Soviet-Polish pact, and went to Palestine where he joined
Naples '44: A World War II Diary of Occupied Italy
Norman Lewis · 192 pages
Between Silk and Cyanide: A Codemaker's War 1941-1945
Leo Marks · 613 pages
The Special Operations Executive (SOE), a British WW2 group infiltrating Reich-dominated Europe, had during the War's early and middle years a continuing problem in certain parts of France. They would train new agents, drop them into French territory, note their contact with a local agent... and they were lost, presumed captured or killed. Two things needed to happen fast: first, a new network h
War in Val d'Orcia: An Italian War Diary, 1943-1944
Iris Origo · 254 pages
Loyal to a Degree
Horst Christian · 330 pages
Love and War in the Apennines
Eric Newby
Devil at My Heels
Louis Zamperini, David Rensin · 271 pages
A former POW recounts his athletic southern California childhood, participation in the 1936 Olympics, imprisonment and torture by an abusive Japanese guard, descent into alcoholism, and salvation by preacher Billy Graham.
Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Chester Nez, Judith Schiess Avila · 320 pages
First Light
Geoffrey Wellum · 352 pages
"Geoffry Wellum tells the ... true story of his coming of age amid the roaring, tumbling dogfights of the fiercest air war the world has ever seen. It is the story of an idealistic schoolboy who couldn't believe his luck when the RAF agreed to take him on as a 'pupil pilot' at the minimum age of seventeen and a half in 1939. In his fervor to fly, he gave little thought to the coming war"--Jacket.
Black Edelweiss
Johann Voss · 224 pages