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Upp till 1 500 brittiska soldater var krigsfångar i Auschwitz. Arthur Dodd var en av dem. 1942 blev den unga brittiska soldaten Arthur Dodd tillfångatagen av den tyska armén och förd till arbetslägret i Auschwitz. Där tvingades han att genomlida h...

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1925 reste Lauri Tuomainen, författarens morfar, full av förhoppningar till Sovjetunionen och antogs vid officersskolan i Leningrad. Men han vantrivdes och återvände besviken hem. Efter en lång rättsprocess fängslades han 1928 i ett och ett halvt ...

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Upp till 1 500 brittiska soldater var krigsfångar i Auschwitz. Arthur Dodd var en av dem. 1942 blev den unga brittiska soldaten Arthur Dodd tillfångatagen av den tyska armén och förd till arbetslägret i Auschwitz. Där tvingades han att genomlida h...

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Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for sur...

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År 1944 övertog svensken Gösta Lundin ansvaret som direktor för Krigsfångehjälpen i Tyskland. En i stort sett okänd organisation som hjälpte upp emot tio miljoner allierade krigsfångar. De hade en unik rörlighet inom Nazityskland och som direktor ...

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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' wh...

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We felt an urge to document what we had witnessed. If we who had experienced it, I reasoned, did not reveal the bitter truth, people simply would not believe the extent of the Nazis evil. I wanted to share our life, the events and our struggle to ...

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Prisoners of war (POWs) are an extraordinary group of wartime migrants, in the sense that they are defined as enemies of the community. Even so, archival evidence from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries includes striking accounts of POWs who...

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In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily mil...

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Sophie Knab's parents were Polish forced labourers in Germany during World War II. For years her mother was unable to discuss or answer questions about this period of her life. Compelled to learn more about her mothers experience and that of other...

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A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of ...

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"When they heard the allies were coming, we were given extra rice to have the strength and energy to dig our own graves." In February 1942, ten-year old Olga Morris and her family were living in Singapore when the city fell to the Japane...

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Mahnaz var 13 år när hon lämnades som sexslav till en 60-årig mulla för att hennes far inte skulle bli avrättad i fängelset. Författaren var 17 år när hon, för att fly regimens dödsdom, tvingades lämna sitt hem och gå med i peshmerga. Surreya var ...

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A born raconteur, his escapes, his operations as a Spitfire pilot, his experiences as a prisoner-of-war, and his incredible escape crossing the Pyrenees - all are described in a breathtaking manner which made me read his book through in one sittin...

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For many of us, the very expression Concentration Camp is inextricably linked to Nazi Germany and the horrors of the Holocaust. The idea of British concentration camps is a strange and unsettling one. It was however the British, rather than the Ge...

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The incredible true story of Louis Zamperini, now a major motion picture directed by Angelina Jolie. THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise Z...

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Första världskriget kom i många avseenden att bli en vattendelare för hur man tänkt och pratat om människors utsatthet och lidande i samband med väpnade konflikter. Aldrig förr hade så många drabbats av krigets och krigsvåldets katastrofala återve...

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"The darkest day of my life came when the Nazis took my brother. I felt helpless as the war tore our family apart. His last words to my mother: ' Mama, if I don't go now, they will kill us all.'  I saw the pain in my mother's eyes. ...

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During the Second World War Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio. Left emotionally scarred and unable to form normal relationships, Lomax suffered for years unt...

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Efter inbördeskriget i Finland våren 1918 förlades omkring 10 000 röda fångar i de tidigare ryska kasernerna utanför Ekenäs. På bara ett par månader avled mer än 3 000 av dem, finländska män i sin bästa ålder. Fånglägertragedin resulterade i Finla...

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Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hostilities in uniform. During this time, he was given a succession of postings varying from a long-ran...

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Upp till 1 500 brittiska soldater var krigsfångar i Auschwitz. Arthur Dodd var en av dem. 1942 blev den unga brittiska soldaten Arthur Dodd tillfångatagen av den tyska armén och förd till arbetslägret i Auschwitz. Där tvingades han att genomlida h...

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Upp till 1 500 brittiska soldater var krigsfångar i Auschwitz. Arthur Dodd var en av dem. 1942 blev den unga brittiska soldaten Arthur Dodd tillfångatagen av den tyska armén och förd till arbetslägret i Auschwitz. Där tvingades han att genomlida h...

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Primo Levi's account of life as a concentration camp prisoner falls into two parts. IF THIS IS A MAN describes his deportation to Poland and the twenty months he spend working in Auschwitz. THE TRUCE covers his long journey to Italy at the end of ...

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Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. After training, they were sent to the ...

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My Hometown Concentration Camp tells the story of the young Bernard Offen's endurance and survival of the Krakow Ghetto and five concentration camps, including Plaszow and Auschwitz-Birkenau, until his liberation near Dachau by American troops in ...

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Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz a...

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Robbed in Iran and imprisoned for over 100 days for suspected espionage, this is the true story of one woman's shocking ordeal in the country she called home.The morning of 30 December 2006 began routinely for Haleh Esfandiari. The Iranian-America...

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Hailed as Newby's 'masterpiece', Love and War in the Apennines is the gripping real-life story of Newby's imprisonment and escape from an Italian prison camp during World War II. After the Italian Armistice of 1943, Eric Newby ...

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'Heroes' is the story of an extraordinary generation of young men, mostly British, who came of age in the Second World War. These young men - and women - found themselves facing life-threatening danger and the kind of responsibility few would be p...

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