Prisoners Of War In The Lomellina
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Prisoners Of War In The Lomellina
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Author : Giuseppe Zucca
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-26
Prisoners Of War In The Lomellina written by Giuseppe Zucca and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-26 with categories.
This book testifies to life in the work detachments which made up Italian prisoner of war camp no. PG 146, based at Mortara in the Lomellina - an area of Lombardy to the south west of Milan. In September 1943, when news of the Italian Armistice reached the detachments, the prisoners escaped into the countryside and depended on the local people for food, clothing and shelter in the difficult months which followed, during which the occupying German forces hunted them down and sent those unfortunate enough to be recaptured to the Stalags. But there were some who managed to cross the Italian Alps into Switzerland, others who stayed in hiding with local families and one who travelled travelled hundreds of kilometres to reach the Allied Lines. The author's mother and her family hid three South Africans, and with the help of an underground movement set up for the purpose, all of them made it over the mountains to freedom.
Prisoners Of War Prisoners Of Peace
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Author : Barbara Hately-Broad
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2005-02-01
Prisoners Of War Prisoners Of Peace written by Barbara Hately-Broad and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with History categories.
Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different. Their history, both during and after the War, has largely been ignored in the grand narratives of the conflict. This collection brings together new scholarship, largely based on sources from previously unavailable Eastern European or Japanese archives. Authors highlight a number of important comparatives. Whereas for the British and Americans held by the Germans and Japanese, the end of the war meant a swift repatriation and demobilization, for the Germans, it heralded the beginning of an imprisonment that, for some, lasted until 1956. These and many more moving stories are revealed here for the first time.
Prisoners Of War
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
Prisoners Of War written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Prisoners of war categories.
We Were Next To Nothing
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Author : Carl S. Nordin
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2004-12-08
We Were Next To Nothing written by Carl S. Nordin and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-12-08 with History categories.
On December 1, 1941, the author's unit was sent to the southern Philippine island of Mindanao to establish an air base. Less than six months later, on May 10, 1942, Sergeant Nordin was captured by the Japanese. For two years he was imprisoned on Mindanao before boarding a Japanese hellship destined for Moji, Japan. He spent the remainder of the war working on the railroad in Yokkaichi. Throughout his time in captivity, the author detailed the conditions and his thoughts on the camps in a secret diary that became the basis of this work. This powerful story recounts the horrors of the prison camps, the torturous journey on the hellship, and the little things that provided him and his fellow prisoners the strength to survive.
In Harm S Way
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Author : Paul K. Cashdollar
language : en
Publisher: Moonglo Publishing
Release Date : 2001-03
In Harm S Way written by Paul K. Cashdollar and has been published by Moonglo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03 with History categories.
Prisoners Of The Empire
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Author : Sarah Kovner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Prisoners Of The Empire written by Sarah Kovner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with History categories.
A pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners. In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese Empire took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. From Manchuria to Java, Burma to New Guinea, the Japanese army hastily set up over seven hundred camps to imprison these unfortunates. In the chaos, 40 percent of American POWs did not survive. More Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Sarah Kovner offers the first portrait of detention in the Pacific theater that explains why so many suffered. She follows Allied servicemen in Singapore and the Philippines transported to Japan on “hellships” and singled out for hard labor, but also describes the experience of guards and camp commanders, who were completely unprepared for the task. Much of the worst treatment resulted from a lack of planning, poor training, and bureaucratic incoherence rather than an established policy of debasing and tormenting prisoners. The struggle of POWs tended to be greatest where Tokyo exercised the least control, and many were killed by Allied bombs and torpedoes rather than deliberate mistreatment. By going beyond the horrific accounts of captivity to actually explain why inmates were neglected and abused, Prisoners of the Empire contributes to ongoing debates over POW treatment across myriad war zones, even to the present day.
Escape From Davao
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Author : John D. Lukacs
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2023-04-04
Escape From Davao written by John D. Lukacs and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-04 with History categories.
The “riveting” (John Wukovits, author of Admiral “Bull” Halsey) and all-but-unknown account of ten American prisoners of war who escaped from a Japanese prison during World War II. On April 4, 1943, ten American prisoners of war and two Filipino convicts executed a daring escape from one of Japan’s most notorious prison camps. The prisoners were survivors of the infamous Bataan Death March and the Fall of Corregidor, and the prison from which they escaped was surrounded by an impenetrable swamp and reputedly escape-proof. Theirs was the only successful group escape from a Japanese POW camp during the Pacific war. Escape from Davao is the “remarkable” (Bill Sloan, author of Brotherhood of Heroes) story of one of the most extraordinary incidents in the Second World War and of what happened when the Americans returned home to tell the world what they had witnessed. Davao Penal Colony, on the southern Philippine island of Mindanao, was a prison plantation where thousands of American POWs toiled alongside Filipino criminals and suffered from tropical diseases and malnutrition, as well as the cruelty of their captors. The American servicemen were rotting in a hellhole from which escape was considered impossible, but ten of them, realizing that inaction meant certain death, planned to escape. Their bold plan succeeded with the help of Filipino allies, both patriots and the guerrillas who fought the Japanese sent to recapture them. Their trek to freedom repeatedly put the Americans in jeopardy, yet they eventually succeeded in returning home to the United States to fulfill their self-appointed mission: to tell Americans about Japanese atrocities and to rally the country to the plight of their comrades still in captivity. But the government and the military had a different timetable for the liberation of the Philippines and ordered the men to remain silent. Their testimony, when it finally emerged, galvanized the nation behind the Pacific war effort and made the men celebrities. Over the decades this remarkable story, called the “greatest story of the war in the Pacific” by the War Department in 1944, has faded away. Because of wartime censorship, the full story has never been told until now. John D. Lukacs spent years researching this heroic event, interviewing survivors, reading their letters, searching archival documents, and traveling to the decaying prison camp and its surroundings. His dramatic, gripping account of the escape brings this remarkable tale back to life, where a new generation can admire the resourcefulness and patriotism of the men who fought the Pacific war.
Long Night S Journey Into Day
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Author : Charles G. Roland
language : en
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Release Date : 2006-01-01
Long Night S Journey Into Day written by Charles G. Roland and has been published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with History categories.
Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, and tuberculosis afflicted all these unfortunate men, affecting their lives not only in the camps during the war but after they returned home. Yet despite the dispiriting circumstances of their captivity, these men found ways to improve their existence, keeping up their morale with such events as musical concerts and entertainments created entirely within the various camps. Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured — from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes. No previous book has shown the essential relationship between almost universal ill health and POW life and death, or provides such a complete and unbiased account of POW life in the Far East in the 1940s.
Prisoners Of War
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Author : Ronald H. Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Release Date : 1981
Prisoners Of War written by Ronald H. Bailey and has been published by Time Life Medical this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Prisoners of war categories.
How 15 million prisoners of war depended less on the Geneva convention than on their captors' attitudes and customs.
In Enemy Hands
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Author : Claire E. Swedberg
language : en
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Release Date : 1997
In Enemy Hands written by Claire E. Swedberg and has been published by Stackpole Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Provides personal accounts of what life was like in German prisoner of war camps during World War II.