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"Concentrating on the American character held hostage, Doyle combed official and private archives as well as unpublished diaries, letters, and memoirs to find exciting stories of individuals, famous and unknown, who risked their lives and those of others to escape." The escapes range from the American Revolution, the Mexican War, the Civil War, "wars of the twentieth century, and the smaller conflicts." He also includes accounts of the Underground...

Presents an analysis of the prisoner of war program as it was carried out in Texas during World War II, looking at how camps were selected and constructed, camp routine, the treatment of prisoners, and the problems encountered with the pro-Nazi prisoners.

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, dehydration and murderous Japanese brutality that would become...

"Apocalypse Undone recounts Preston Hubbard's four-and-a-half year odyssey from a young, idealistic CCC worker to a much older, troubled man full of contempt for war and those who make it. Incredibly, he survived the Bataan Death March; imprisonment at Camp O'Donnell, where the death rate from thirst and dysentery ran more than four hundred a day; a jungle work detail on Tayabas Isthmus; the starvation diet of Manila's Bilibid Prison; the black holds...

A look at the masterminds behind some of World War II's greatest escapes discusses the master counterfeiters and engineers who supplied people in Europe and Asia with false documents, coded messages, hidden radios, compasses, and tools for escape.

A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American Revolution Annotation: A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American Revolution.

Overview: "It was a cold December morning in 1944, deep in the Ardennes forest of Belgium. Eighteen men of a small intelligence platoon commanded by twenty-year-old lieutenant Lyle Bouck were huddled in their foxholes, desperately trying to keep warm. Suddenly the early morning silence was broken by the roar of a huge artillery bombardment. Hitler had launched his bold and risky offensive against the Allies - his "last gamble"--And the American platoon...