Far East Prisoner of War Memoirs (49 books)

Memoirs/biographies about men who were prisoners in the eastern theater in WW2.

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1	The Prisoner List: A true story of defeat, captivity and salvation in the Far East: 1941-45 by Richard Kandler 4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
1	We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of the American Women Trapped on Bataan by Elizabeth M. Norman (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 4,847 ratings score: 100, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific by Gavan Daws 4.16 avg rating — 231 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun: How I Survived China s Wartime Atrocity by Homare Endo 4.42 avg rating — 26 ratings score: 99, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	And the dawn came up like thunder by Leo Rawlings 4.31 avg rating — 49 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Dragon by the Tail: American, British, Japanese, and Russian Encounters with China and One Another by John Paton Davies Jr. 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings score: 98, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese: Their Ordeal and The Legacy by Ellie Taylor 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II by Louis Zamperini 4.36 avg rating — 3,855 ratings score: 97, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Life on the Death Railway: The Memoirs of a British POW by Stuart Young 4.33 avg rating — 49 ratings score: 96, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	Railroad of Death by John Coast 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings score: 95, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	Tomorrow You Die: The Astonishing Survival Story of a Second World War Prisoner of the Japanese by Andy Coogan 4.56 avg rating — 305 ratings score: 94, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Surviving the Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 by Brian MacArthur 4.20 avg rating — 147 ratings score: 93, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	Prisoner of the Japanese: From Changi to Tokyo by Tom Henling Wade 4.24 avg rating — 90 ratings score: 92, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	No Mercy from the Japanese: A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships, 1942–1945 by John Wyatt 4.12 avg rating — 118 ratings score: 91, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	A Doctor's Sword – How an Irish Doctor Survived War, Captivity and the Atomic Bomb by Bob Jackson 4.56 avg rating — 181 ratings score: 90, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East by Alistair Urquhart 4.53 avg rating — 5,642 ratings score: 89, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	The Railway Man by Eric Lomax 4.13 avg rating — 8,128 ratings score: 88, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Faith, Hope and Rice: Private Cox's Account of Captivity and the Death Railway by Ellie Taylor 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 87, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Digger's Story by David Barrett 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings score: 86, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway: Narratives of History and Memory by Lizzie Oliver really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 85, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Banzai You Bastards! by Jack Edwards 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings score: 84, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	ONE FOURTEENTH OF AN ELEPHANT - A memoir of life and death on the Burma - Thailand Railway by Ian Denys Peek 4.35 avg rating — 262 ratings score: 83, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir by H. Robert Charles 4.25 avg rating — 162 ratings score: 82, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Prisoner of the Rising Sun by Stanley Wort 3.99 avg rating — 99 ratings score: 81, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	By Hellship to Hiroshima by Terence Kelly 4.08 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 80, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	To the Kwai-and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945 by Ronald Searle 4.61 avg rating — 46 ratings score: 79, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Naked Island by Russell Braddon 4.36 avg rating — 166 ratings score: 78, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman 4.20 avg rating — 3,243 ratings score: 77, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	No Surrender in Burma: Operations Behind Japanese Lines, Captivity and Torture by Fred C. Goode 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 76, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	My Hitch in Hell by Lester I. Tenney 4.37 avg rating — 446 ratings score: 75, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	Mr. Michel's War: From Manila to Mukden: An American Navy Officer's War with the Japanese by John J.A. Michel 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings score: 74, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	Railway of Hell: War, Captivity and Forced Labour at the Arms of the Japanese by Reginald George Burton 3.93 avg rating — 113 ratings score: 73, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	TO END ALL WARS by Ernest Gordon 4.30 avg rating — 864 ratings score: 72, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	A Cruel Captivity: Prisoners of the Japanese – Their Ordeal and The Legacy by Ellie Taylor 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings score: 71, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	The Colonel of Tamarkan by Julie Summers 4.23 avg rating — 87 ratings score: 70, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Hell Pits of Sendryu: A POW story of survival on the Death Railway and Nagasaki by Jim Brigginshaw 4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings score: 69, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	Long Way Back to the River Kwai: Memories of World War II by Loet Velmans 4.04 avg rating — 472 ratings score: 68, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway by Reg Twigg 4.49 avg rating — 322 ratings score: 67, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Lost Souls of the River Kwai: Experiences of a British Soldier on the Railway of Death by Bill Reed 4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings score: 66, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Prisoners of the Empire: Inside Japanese POW Camps by Sarah Kovner 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings score: 65, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	Captive Memories: Far East Prisoners of War by Geoff Gill 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 64, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Doctor Behind the Wire: The Diaries of POW, Captain Jack Ennis, Singapore 1942-1945 by Jackie Sutherland 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings score: 63, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Death and Deprivation on the Forgotten Sumatra Railway: A Prisoner's Story by James H. Banton 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings score: 62, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	A Wearside Lad in World War II by Len Gibson it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings score: 61, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	What Price Bushido? by Alfred Thomas Josiah Baker 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 60, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	Ubon: The Last Camp Before Freedom (Number 1 book History of south-east Asia) by Ray Withnall (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 59, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Heroes of F Force by Don Wall 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 58, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	From the Woodlands to the Jungle by Martyn Fryer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating score: 57, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Prisoners on the Kwai: Memoirs of Dr Harold Churchill, with Extracts from the Memories of Ex-prisoners of War in the Far East by Harold Churchill 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings score: 56, and 1 person voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars