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Large type books Prisoner-of-war escapes Prisoners of war Prisoners of war Germany Biography Prisoners of war United States Biography Prisoners United States Case studies United States World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, American World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, German World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, JapaneseHillenbrand, Laura
Summary: In this captivating and lavishly illustrated young adult edition of her award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller, Laura Hillenbrand tells the story of a former Olympian s courage, cunning, and fortitude following his plane crash in enemy territory. This adaptation of Unbroken introduces a new generation to one of history s most thrilling survival epics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ember 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 910.54 HILCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 ZAMBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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Summary: "Story of men who tunneled to escape a German prisoner-of-war camp. Learn about the planners, task leaders, and key players of the escape from Stalag Luft III"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a capstone imprint 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 YOMBrookes, Maggie
Summary: "Inspired by a true story, a daring deception plunges a courageous and desperate young woman deep into the horrors of a Nazi POW camp to be with the man she loves. Czechoslovakia, 1944 In the dead of night a farm girl and a British soldier creep through abandoned villages. Izabela and prisoner-of-war Bill have secretly married, and are on the run, searching for Izabela's brother and father, who...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BROBascomb, Neal
Summary: "The story of a group of Allied POWs in WWI who dared to escape from Germany's most notorious prison camp, Holzminden."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arthur A. Levine Books 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 940.4 BASMorris, Heather
Summary: "In the midst of World War II, an English musician, Norah Chambers, places her eight-year-old daughter, Sally, on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe from the Japanese army as they move down through the Pacific. Norah remains to care for her husband and elderly parents, knowing she may never see her child again. Sister Nesta James, a Welsh-Australian nurse, has enlisted to tend...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction MorrisFox, Margalit
Summary: "Imprisoned in a remote Turkish prison camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry Jones and Cedric Hill, join forces to bamboozle their iron-fisted captors. To stave off despair and boredom, Jones takes a handmade Ouija board and fakes elaborate séances for his fellow prisoners. Word gets around camp,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FOXNorman, Michael
Summary: Following the U.S. surrender to the Japanese on the peninsula of Bataan in 1942, 76,000 American and Filipino POWs began the infamous Death March. This gripping narrative, told in unsparing but sympathetic detail, focuses intermittently on American POW Ben Steele, whose sketches adorn the book, and the hell of Japanese prison and labor camps that introduced these captives to the starvation,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 940.54 NORCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 NORWeintraub, Robert
Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ikon Books. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 FELKershaw, Alex.
Summary: Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members, and their capture by the Japanese followed by months of brutal captivity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5451 KEREdmonds, Chris (Christopher Waring)
Summary: "Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is theinspiring truestory of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives--then and now. Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 EDMONDS, RODDIE EDMRyan, Hugh
Summary: "The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.43 RYAMoore, Heather B.
Summary: "Based on a true story, this gripping WWII novel captures the resilience, hope, and courage of a Dutch family who is separated during the war when the Japanese occupy the Dutch East Indies, Java Island, 1941. Six-year-old Rita Vischer cowers in her family's dug-out bomb shelter, listening to the sirens and waiting for a bomb to fall. Her charmed life on Java--living with other Dutch...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shadow Mountain 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MOOHampton, Dan
Summary: "Valor is the magnificent story of a genuine American hero who survived the fall of the Philippines and brutal captivity under the Japanese, from New York Times bestselling author Dan Hampton. Lieutenant William Frederick "Bill" Harris was 25 years old when captured by Japanese forces during the Battle of Corregidor in May 1942. This son of a decorated Marine general escaped from hell on earth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HARRIS, WILLIAM FREDRICK HAMKeneally, Thomas.
Summary: In this first volume of a unique history of Australia where people are always centre stage, bestselling author Thomas Keneally brings to life the vast range of characters who have formed our national story. Convicts and Aborigines, settlers and soldiers, patriots and reformers, bushrangers and gold seekers, it is from their lives and their stories that he has woven a vibrant history to do full...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Allen & Unwin 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994 KENRoss, Jeffrey Ian
Summary: Can the common criminal get a fresh start? A resource for former convicts and their families post-incarceration. The United States has the largest criminal justice system in the world, with currently over 7 million adults and juveniles in jail, prison, or community custody. Because they spend enough time in prison to disrupt their connections to their families and their communities, they are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alpha 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365 ROSPaul, Janie
Summary: "In Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance, Janie Paul introduces readers to the culture and aesthetics of prison art communities, and shares heart wrenching, poignant, and often surprisingly humorous artists' narratives. These powerful stories and images upend the manufactured stereotypes of those living in prison, imparting a real human dimension--a critical step in the movement to end...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hat & Beard Press 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 750.086 PAUStrauss, Gwen
Summary: "The Nine follows the true story of the author's great aunt Helene Podliasky, who led a band of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris. The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms through Europe, harbored parachuting agents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 STRGreenwood, Elizabeth
Summary: "What is it like to fall in love through the bars of a prison cell? Elizabeth Greenwood spent five years investigating relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside. She profiled couples whose love through incarceration runs the gamut in terms of sexual orientation, race, and circumstances of their incarceration. A sort of Modern Love: Prison Edition, LOVE LOCKDOWN...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 365.6 GRESummary: How do wrongful convictions happen, and what are the consequences for the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent? Fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories, while another exoneree's case is explored. They detail every aspect of the experience of wrongful conviction, as well as the remarkable depths of endurance sustained by each exoneree who never lost hope.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.973 CALDenney, Robert E.
Summary: Chronicle of Civil War prisons taken from diaries, letters, official war records, and newspaper articles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. Co. 1993
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 973.7 DenHirsch, James S.
Summary: Chronicles the life-saving friendship that developed between a black Air Force officer and a white Navy pilot from a privileged Southern background while they were both prisoners of the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.7043 HIRMrazek, Robert J.
Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020