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Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
"As the United States engaged in a bloody campaign to pacify its newly-won Philippines territory, a secret American mission went terribly wrong, resulting in a prisoner-of-war incident that foreshadowed World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. What happened next was an epic struggle for survival, a test of the human will to live, and ultimately, a crucible for heroes. Their captivity and the torturous expedition sent to the American POWs' rescue, recalled...
7) Rescue dawn
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
286 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq's occupation that reveals how it is being experienced by both guards and prisoners.
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 302 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mahvish Khan is an American lawyer, born in Michigan to immigrant Afghan parents. Outraged that her country was illegally imprisoning people at Guanta?namo, she volunteered to translate for the prisoners. She spoke their language, understood their customs, and brought them Starbucks chai, the closest available drink to the kind of tea they would drink at home. And they quickly befriended her, offering fatherly advice as well as a uniquely personal...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
261 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While renovating a cabin in the Minnesota woods, Betsy Devonshire, owner of the Crewel World needlework shop, discovers the skeleton of a Nazi. Her investigation yields the site of a former German POW camp and an intricately designed pattern of clues to a decades-old crime.
12) German prisoners of war at Camp Cooke, California: personal accounts of fourteen soldiers, 1944-1946
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1943, the first great wave of Hitler's soldier's came to America, not as goose-stepping conquering heroes, but as prisoners of war. By the time World War II ended in 1945, more than six hundred German POW camps had sprung up across America holding a total of 371,683 POWs. One of these camps was established at the U.S. Army's training installation Camp Cooke on June 16, 1944. The POW base camp at Cooke operated sixteen branch camps in six of California's...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kept for a week in the outer ring of a death camp, Henry witnessed the Nazis' unspeakable brutality-the so-called Final Solution, with people marched to their deaths, their bodies discarded like cords of wood. Transported to a work camp, he endured horrors of his own when he was forced to live in unbelievable squalor and labor in a coal mine with other POWs. Knowing they would be worked to death, he and a friend made a desperate escape. When a German...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gaunt?namo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gaunt?namo on the eve of its 20th anniversary"--
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