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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as pow)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,011,267 ratings — published 2010
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as pow)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,296,331 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 — 40,433 ratings — published 2001
The Great Escape (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pow)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,717 ratings — published 1950
King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as pow)
avg rating 4.20 — 45,290 ratings — published 1962
Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,973 ratings — published 2003
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.04 — 64,811 ratings — published 2013
Five Years To Freedom (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,607 ratings — published 1971
The Railway Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pow)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,317 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 — 11,154 ratings — published 2022
Prisoner of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 1984
Two Souls Indivisible: The Friendship That Saved Two POWs in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.18 — 376 ratings — published 2004
Given Up for Dead: America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.38 — 616 ratings — published 2003
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 — 63,069 ratings — published 1950
Colditz: The Full Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.05 — 302 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 4.20 — 3,306 ratings — published 1992
Password Is Courage (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pow)
avg rating 4.32 — 97 ratings — published 1955
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 — 447 ratings — published 2016
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,049,622 ratings — published 2023
Sisters Under the Rising Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.85 — 22,910 ratings — published 2023
Dead Reckoning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,017 ratings — published 2009
Wolfsbane (Discarded Heroes Book 3)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,203 ratings — published 2011
When We Were Young & Brave (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,236 ratings — published 2020
The Prisoner's Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,365 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 — 1,769 ratings — published 2018
War Trash (Vintage International)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,285 ratings — published 2004
Through the Valley: My Captivity in Vietnam (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.52 — 306 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 — 44 ratings — published 2000
The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III: The Full Story of How 76 Allied Officers Carried Out World War II's Most Remarkable Mass Escape (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.10 — 160 ratings — published 2005
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 — 65,897 ratings — published 2011
Andersonville (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,467 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 — 1,292 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 — 1,040 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 — 915 ratings — published 1947
The Wooden Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,473 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 — 32 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
The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pow)
avg rating 3.89 — 9,156 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 — 2,958 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 — 5,931 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 — 4,861 ratings — published 2007
Kriegie: Prisoner of War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.59 — 376 ratings — published 2014
33 Months as a POW in Stalag Luft III: A World War II Airman Tells His Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.07 — 15 ratings — published 2005
To D-Day and Back: Adventures with the 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Life as a World War II POW: A memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.34 — 32 ratings — published 2007
Stalag Luft III: An Official History of the "Great Escape' PoW Camp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pow)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
“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
“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”
― Wealth of Words
― Wealth of Words
