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Prisoner Of War Books
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The Great Escape (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.22 — 10,458 ratings — published 1950
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 994,252 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.00 — 126,685 ratings — published 2012
Escape or Die: True Stories of Heroic Escape in the Second World War (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 349 ratings — published 1952
Colditz: The German Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.21 — 112 ratings — published 1961
Colditz: The Full Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 295 ratings — published 1984
The Latter Days At Colditz (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.17 — 251 ratings — published 1953
The Railway Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,048 ratings — published 1995
The Wooden Horse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,430 ratings — published 1949
The Colditz Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,391 ratings — published 1952
They Have Their Exits: The Best-Selling Escape Memoir of World War Two (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 465 ratings — published 1955
Tap Code: The Epic Survival Tale of a Vietnam POW and the Secret Code That Changed Everything (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,488 ratings — published 2019
Road to resistance: An autobiography (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 1979
Escape and Evasion: POW Breakouts in World War Two (Cassell Military Classics)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.40 — 45 ratings — published 1972
Under the Wire (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.40 — 383 ratings — published 2005
You'll Die in Singapore: The True Account of One of the Most Amazing POW Escapes in WWII (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.36 — 607 ratings — published 1957
Great Escape Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.95 — 44 ratings — published 1958
Reach for the Sky (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,421 ratings — published 1954
The One That Got Away (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.92 — 52 ratings — published 1956
Fighting with Popski's Private Army (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.54 — 97 ratings — published 2002
Prisoners of the Castle: An Epic Story of Survival and Escape from Colditz, the Nazis' Fortress Prison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.26 — 10,051 ratings — published 2022
Escape From Colditz (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 369 ratings — published 1975
A True Story of the Great Escape: A young Australian POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII: Why a Boy From Manly Was Executed on Hitler's Personal Order (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.15 — 72 ratings — published 2015
Enemy Within (Enemy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,264 ratings — published 2010
The Colditz Myth: British and Commonwealth Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.50 — 10 ratings — published 2004
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 17,178 ratings — published 2016
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.05 — 312,903 ratings — published 2009
No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,464 ratings — published 1947
'Wings' Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 16 ratings — published 1970
Escape from Germany (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 2009
Jungle Soldier: The true story of Freddy Spencer Chapman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 470 ratings — published 2009
Death railway (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Human conflict)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.67 — 15 ratings — published 1973
The Hundred Days Of Lt. MacHorton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.11 — 27 ratings — published 1958
PRISONERS OF SANTO TOMAS: A True Account of Women POWs under Japanese Control (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published 1997
Women Beyond the Wire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.06 — 48 ratings — published 1982
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Escape from a Siberian Labour Camp and His 3-Year Trek to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,704 ratings — published 1955
Summer of My German Soldier (Summer of My German Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.70 — 17,741 ratings — published 1973
War Trash (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,174 ratings — published 2004
The Long Walk: The True Story of a Trek to Freedom (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,555 ratings — published 1956
The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.53 — 5,449 ratings — published 2010
The Distant Land of My Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 5,451 ratings — published 2001
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.25 — 39,021 ratings — published 2001
The Last Rebellion (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,089 ratings — published 2013
A Town Like Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.16 — 61,196 ratings — published 1950
The Bridge Over the River Kwai (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.94 — 10,498 ratings — published 1952
Hostages at Colditz (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 3.79 — 19 ratings — published 1954
Boldness be My Friend (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 158 ratings — published 1953
Saturday at M.I.9: The Classic Account of the WW2 Allied Escape Organisation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.08 — 101 ratings — published 1969
King Rat (Asian Saga, #4)
by (shelved 2 times as prisoner-of-war)
avg rating 4.20 — 43,766 ratings — published 1962
“This may sound sexist,' Joslyn said, 'but my theory is that men like the Civil War because it's an action story, they're caught up in the battlefield drama. The prisoners are an emotional side of the War. Women are attracted to all that raw feeling, we understand it better....”
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
― Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
“Guards punished anyone caught taking bones from the garbage by fastening the bone between his teeth, across his mouth, and then tying like a gag. "And then the poor fellow was made to fall down and crawl around on his hands and knees like a dog, a laughing stock for Federal soldiers, spies, and camp followers," Bean recalled bitterly.”
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
― To Die in Chicago: Confederate Prisoners at Camp Douglas, 1862-65
