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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,004,457 ratings — published 2010
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as pow)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,244,490 ratings — published 2018
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pow)
avg rating 4.26 — 40,066 ratings — published 2001
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.04 — 64,028 ratings — published 2013
Five Years To Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,574 ratings — published 1971
The Great Escape (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,666 ratings — published 1950
King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.20 — 44,860 ratings — published 1962
The Railway Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,248 ratings — published 1995
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,864 ratings — published 2022
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,887 ratings — published 2003
Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.17 — 372 ratings — published 2004
Colditz: The Definitive History: The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.21 — 303 ratings — published 2001
A Town Like Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.16 — 62,375 ratings — published 1950
Colditz: The Full Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.06 — 299 ratings — published 1984
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,287 ratings — published 1992
As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.39 — 441 ratings — published 2016
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.15 — 997,923 ratings — published 2023
Sisters Under the Rising Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.85 — 21,965 ratings — published 2023
Dead Reckoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,013 ratings — published 2009
Wolfsbane (Discarded Heroes Book 3)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,196 ratings — published 2011
When We Were Young & Brave (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.19 — 12,971 ratings — published 2020
The Prisoner's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,293 ratings — published 2020
The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,750 ratings — published 2018
Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.51 — 294 ratings — published
Desert Rose (The Warriors #1)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.78 — 514 ratings — published 1992
Prisoners of the Kaiser: The Last POWs of the Great War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.05 — 43 ratings — published 2000
Prisoner of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 1984
Railway of Hell: War, Captivity and Forced Labour at the Arms of the Japanese (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.92 — 116 ratings — published 2002
The Lost Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.25 — 65,326 ratings — published 2011
Andersonville (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,431 ratings — published 1955
Escape From Davao: The Forgotten Story of the Most Daring Prison Break of the Pacific War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,287 ratings — published 2010
Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing, and Dying, The Secret WWII Transcripts of German POWS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,029 ratings — published 2011
Prisoner of War in Germany (Shire Library)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2009
The Story of Wake Island (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.37 — 908 ratings — published 1947
The Wooden Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,463 ratings — published 1949
I Am Alive!: A United States Marine's Story of Survival in a World war II Japanese POW Camp (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.84 — 31 ratings — published 2003
Prisoners of the Japanese: POWs of World War II in the Pacific (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.16 — 232 ratings — published 1994
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.38 — 612 ratings — published 2003
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,064 ratings — published 2011
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,951 ratings — published 2006
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,815 ratings — published 2010
Prisoner of War: Voices from Behind the Wire in the Second World War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.31 — 29 ratings — published 2008
The Welsh Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.45 — 4,840 ratings — published 2007
Password Is Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.32 — 97 ratings — published 1955
Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Enigmatic Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 3.90 — 31 ratings — published 2002
Atlas (Discarded Heroes: Scions #1)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.73 — 135 ratings — published
Ground Zero (Lantern Beach Blackout: Detonation #3)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.78 — 741 ratings — published 2025
Married to Mischief: An Adventurous Romantic Comedy Short Story (CAUGHT IN CHAOS COLLECTION Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.30 — 329 ratings — published
The Heirloom Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.18 — 6,460 ratings — published 2020
“The Germans did not like to use the searchlights, especially on nights when there were British bombing raids on nearby installations. Even the most uneducated German soldier could guess that from the air the sight of probing searchlights would make the camp appear to be an ammunition dump or a manufacturing plant, and some hard-pressed Lancaster pilot, having fought off frightening raids by Luftwaffe night fighters, might make an error and drop his stick of bombs right on top of them.
So the searchlight use was erratic, which only made them more terrifying to anyone who wanted to maneuver from one hut to another at night. It was difficult to time their sweeps because they were so haphazard.”
― Hart's War
So the searchlight use was erratic, which only made them more terrifying to anyone who wanted to maneuver from one hut to another at night. It was difficult to time their sweeps because they were so haphazard.”
― Hart's War
“He shuddered at the idea of digging beneath the surface. It would be stifling, hot, filthy, and dangerous. The ferrets also occasionally commandeered a heavy truck, loaded it with men and material, and drove it, bouncing along, around the outside perimeter of the camp. They believed the weight would cause any underground tunnel to collapse. Once, more than a year earlier, they'd been right. He remembered the fury on Colonel MacNamara's face when the long days and nights of hard work were so summarily crushed.”
― Hart's War
― Hart's War
