books: war captivity

books: war captivity

books:

War captivity

Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front

Hans Thiel

McFarland & Company, 2007

Stark, unflinchingly honest account.
The Wolves of World War II: An East Prussian Soldier's Memoir of Combat and Captivity on the Eastern Front is the true-life story of author and East Prussian farmer Hans Thiel, who was conscripted into military service on September 1944, close to the end of World War ...

Calico Captive

Elizabeth George Speare

Houghton Mifflin, 2001

A modern re-writing of captivity narrative and young adult classic: Calico Captive
Calico Captive is Elizabeth George Sprears (1908-1994) first novel. It was inspired by the diary of Susanna Willard Johnson, abducted by the Abenaki Indians in 1754 (during the French and Indian War) from her house in Fort Number 4 in Charleston, New Hampshire, ...

The Billy Ruffian: The Bellerophon and the Downfall of Napoleon

David Cordingly

Bloomsbury USA, 2003

Unusual biography
Instead of the usual biography of a famous captain or battle, Mr. Cordingly treats us to the life of a famous ship of the line - Bellerophon. From a protracted birth in the slips of the Medway, through the highs and lows of the American and European wars, to an ...

Bright Captivity (Book One of the Georgia Trilogy)

Eugenia Price

St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996

romantic without being dirty, spiritual,intriguing,fascinati
Eugenia Price is a very spiritual writer with a lotof love to go around.I've read everything I can get by her and even went to her island about 4 years ago and toured around the island right down to the cemeteries where some of the characters were buried.A very ...

The Good Soldier: From Austrian Social Democracy to Communist Captivity with a Soldier of Panzer-Grenadier ...

Alfred Novotny

The Aberjona Press, 2002

A very excellent personal WWII story
5 Stars First, this book is published by Aberjona Press. I will be totally honest with you. I've never read a bad WWII book published by this business. I highly encourage amazon.com readers to read other books published by this firm. WWII is their bread and ...

Wait for Me, Watch for Me, Eula Bee

Patricia Beatty

HarperTrophy, 1990

Favorite Childhood book
I read this book YEARS ago and it still stands out in my memory. It was my favorite book in elementary school and I also bought this for my daughter. It's amazing how what you read as a child can affect your adult life.

White Slaves, African Masters: An Anthology of American Barbary Captivity Narratives

University Of Chicago Press, 1999

Captivated by captivity narratives
While reading Baepler's book WHITE SLAVES, AFRICAN MASTERS I kept asking myself, Why didn't I know about this fascinating part of American and world history before? While I found the men's stories to be captivating, I was especially enthralled with the stories of ...

Girl Captives of the Cheyennes: A True Story of the Capture and Rescue of Four Pioneer Girls, 1874 (Frontier ...

Grace E. Meredith

Stackpole Books, 2004

Eye-Witness History
Zane Grey called his copy of this book "one of the prized volumes of my Western library" and it is almost unique. On 9/11 in 1874, a lone wagon with a family of nine was ambushed in western Kansas, the parents and three of the older children were killed, and a massive ...

Blue Jacket: War Chief of the Shawnee

Allan W. Eckert

Jesse Stuart Foundation, 2003

One of the best
This is one of the best books I have read that is factual. Anyone that reads this book will get a real education without propaganda on the life and ways of the early Native American and how they were treated. Only one book better by the same author that I have read 5 ...

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

Caroline B. Cooney

Laurel Leaf, 2002

great read!
I thought this was one of my favorite books! The story is very interesting and a great book to do a school report on. The book is mainly about a girl named Mercy Carter who is about 11 and the time. One cold winter night, her town was taken over by a bunch of native ...

WELLINGTON'S LIEUTENANT NAPOLEON'S GAOLER: The Peninsula Letters and St Helena Diaries of Sir George Rideout ...
Gareth Glover

Pen and Sword, 2005

The Author wrote numerous letters home from the campaigns that he fought with Wellington in the Peninsular when he was commanding his Regiment. He was therefore in a senior position and privy to secrets of the war. He is often caustic regarding his superiors including The Iron Duke himself. He packs his letters with interesting descriptions of the ...

Massacre On The Lordsburg Road: A Tragedy Of The Apache Wars (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West ...
Marc Simmons

Texas A&M University Press, 2005

Hitler's Raid to Save Mussolini: The Most Infamous Commando Operation of World War II

Greg Annussek

Da Capo Press, 2005

One Exploit of a Famous Commando
Otto Skorzeny is one of those bigger than life individuals that came out of World War II. Easily the most famous commando type to come out of the war, this book tells the tale of just one of his exploits, the rescue of Mussolini after the Italians had arrested and ...

In the Shadow of the Ayatollah: A CIA Hostage in Iran

William J. Daugherty

US Naval Institute Press, 2001

Resist Terror and Survive with Class
How can I most effectively resist my captors without being self destructive? This seminal question was answered by Stockdale in Hanoi, taught by Hegdahl in Navy Survival School, and practiced by Daugherty in Tehran. The lessons are all the more important today in our ...

An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government

William C. Davis

Harcourt, 2001

On the road with Jeff, John and Judah
It's rare to have a window on an ousted government on the run. In modern times, the Failed President, Great Dictator, or Big Daddy just scuttles under some Third World rock to settle down and enjoy the retirement benefits of a Swiss bank account. In AN HONORABLE ...