Secret POW Diary of Walter J. Hinkle: Life in Japanese Captivity during WWII, Hardback - ***

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdIllustration(s): colour photosNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 162 x 236 x 34Cover type: Har...

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In recent years, international attention has been recurrently drawn to violence against civilians including sexual violence during war as a means o...

For readers of My Name is Eva, The Tattooist of Auschwitz and The Letter, this is a haunting and thought-provoking dual timeframe historical novel ...

Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sa...

Mick and Margery Jennings's comfortable life in Singapore ended with the Japanese invasion in late 1941. Margery was captured in Sumatra after HMV ...

This is the previously untold story of the brave Lancastrians who endured the Fall of Singapore, and their subsequent incarceration at Keijo POW ca...

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Drawing on newspaper accounts, prisoner narratives, and government records, David Dzurec explores how stories of American captivity in North Americ...

Publisher: Marquette University PressAuthor(s): Thomas C. ReevesNumber of pages: 455Publication date: 2006Dimensions: 221 x 150 x 41Cover type: Har...

An unusual example of the popular but shocking Japanese POW genre.

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The long-awaited diary from Whitehall's most scandalous MP...Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): The Secret Tory MPNumber of pages: 256Pu...

From historian and columnist in Leatherneck and Armor magazines, this is the exciting, personal account of a Marine fighter squadron in the South P...

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The bestselling autobiography of the legendary Louis Zamperini, hero of the blockbuster UnbrokenA modern classic by an American legend, Devil at My...

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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Hans LengererIllustration(s): 150 b/w photos & line drawingsNumber of pages: 128Publication date: 2022...

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Features 12 accounts that describe the battle experience, the different nations' attitudes toward imprisonment, and the often-barbaric treatment of...

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Publisher: Edition ReussAuthor(s): Eberhard J WormerIllustration(s): 460 photos & illusNumber of pages: 492Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 297 x ...

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This book is about stagecoach travel during the Napoleonic War, the era of Austen and Dickens, and the early years of Queen Victoria. Its covers tr...

This is the story of how Boris, a lazy, bumptious and overweening child, comes to believe he should be Prime Minister. Along the way, we see him ho...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Michel BarnierTranslator: Robin MackayNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 164 x 235 x 47Cover t...

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One of a series of top-quality fiction for schools, this is Sue Townsend's wry and witty diary of the adolescent Adrian Mole.

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The incredible story of the radar wars: Britain's most secret battle.

This fascinating book-part ethnography, part memoir-traces Japan's vibrant caf society over one hundred and thirty years. Merry White traces Japan'...

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In October 1785, American statesman John Jay acknowledged that the more his countrymen "are treated ill abroad, the more we shall unite and consoli...