Doctor Behind the Wire: The Diaries of Pow, Captain Jack Ennis, Singapore 1942-1945 9781399010290, 1399010298

The Captain Was a Doctor: The Long War and Uneasy Peace of POW John Reid 9781459747234, 9781459747227

A Canadian medical officer and prisoner of war returns from the Second World War a hero ― and a very different man. In A

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Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW 9780231552950

In 1952, John T. “Jack” Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by th

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Dr. Jack: Calcutta's Pavement Doctor 0747508909, 9780747508908

The story of Dr Jack Preger, the English doctor whose life is dedicated to treating the street-dwellers of Calcutta.

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Pow! Right in the Eye!: Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting 9780226814537

Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the fir

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Mud & Bodies: The War Diaries & Letters of Captain N.A.C. Weir, 1914-1920 9781783830060, 1783830069

Neil Weir died in 1967, but it was not until 2009 that his grandson, Mike Burns, discovered his diary among some boxes h

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Nature Behind Barbed Wire: An Environmental History of the Japanese American Incarceration 0190842067, 9780190842062

The mass imprisonment of over 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry during World War II was one of the most egregious viol

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Behind the Wire: Allied Prisoners of War in Hitler’s Germany 9781781590447, 9781783378401

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This Going To Heart :secret diaries of junior doctor 9781035003945

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Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei 9780824863357

Yasutaro Soga’s Life behind Barbed Wire (Tessaku seikatsu) is an exceptional firsthand account of the incarceration of a

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The Secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister – Vol.2: The Secret diaries of Miss Anne Lister, the Inspiration for Gentleman Jack 2260778312

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