Product Description: Odyssey of a Bombardier is the illustrated Prisoner of War “log” that depicts the experiences of bombardier Richard M. Mason in German prison camps after his B-17 “Flying Fortress” was shot down by the Germans in France in 1944, the final year of World War II...read more

Product Description: The chronicle of a Union soldier's seven months in captivityBesides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy. It is estimated that one out of every seven soldiers was taken captive--more than 194,000 of them from Union regiments--and held in prison camps infamous for breeding disease and death...read more

Product Description: There is no fear quite like the all consuming “fear of the unknown.” Couple that with subzero temperatures, being wounded, malnourished and one of 60 other men locked in a boxcar heading deeper into Nazi occupied Germany, deeper into the indignation of being a P...read more

This diary is one of the most unusual produced during the Civil War because it contains very little about military life. Early in the war Van Buskirk abandoned his regiment, working as a schoolmaster, farm hand, and casual laborer. He wrote of the suffering civilians endured at the hands of contending armies. But he also found time to chronicle his fascination with handsome young lads he encountered during his life as a deserter--unwittingly providing modern readers an illuminating glimpse of class differences and sexual mores. Naval, social and sexual historians, in particular, will find much valuable source material.

Product Description: Not Without Honor threads together the stories of three American POWs—Carano; his buddy Bill Blackmon, who was also at Stalag 17 b; and John C. Bitzer, who survived the brutal “Death March” from northern Germany to liberation in April 1945...read more

Product Description: “I do not know of any other soldier account which gives a more realistic and vivid representation of what a Civil War battle was like. . . . It is of exceptional merit and interest. Its excellence is so outstanding as to set it apart from the general run of published (and unpublished) personal narrative...read more

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Product Description: A welcome edition to the literature of the prisoners of war and of army staff officers.

Wright, a young lieutenant sent straight from West Point to Corregidor in 1940, describes in a secret diary his experiences during three and a half years as a Japanese prisoner of war

Product Description: Book by Natalie Crouter