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Captives(2003) COLLEY, LINDALinda Colley uses these tales of ordinary individuals trapped in extraordinary encounters to re-evaluate the character and diversity of the British Empire. She shows how British attitudes to Islam, slavery, race, and American Revolutionaries look differenVezava: Mehka26,62 €
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General(2014) ERRACHIDI, AHMED,SLOVO, GILLIANOn 11 September 2001, in a café in London, Ahmed Errachidi watched as the twin towers collapsed.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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White Rabbit(2000) MARSHALL, BRUCEThe harrowing, and inspiring, story of the capture of one of Britain's top SOE agents in World War Two, his refusal to crack under the most horrific torture, and his final imprisonment in a concentration camp.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Reluctant Communist(2008) JENKINS, CHARLES ROBERT,FREDERICK, JIMTakes the reader behind the North Korean curtain and reveals the inner workings of its isolated society while offering a powerful testament to the human spirit.Vezava: Mehka40,39 €
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Railway Man(1996) LOMAX, ERICDuring 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 until, withVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Escaping with His Life(2019) YOUNG, NICHOLASAn inspiring and thrilling account of a British soldierVezava: Trda35,05 €
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Stalag 383 Bavaria(2021) WYNN, STEPHENThe camps prisoners came mainly from defeats at St Valery, Dunkirk, and Crete.Vezava: Trda28,03 €
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American Cipher(2020) FARWELL, MATT,AMES, MICHAELThe explosive narrative of the life, captivity, and trial of Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who was abducted by the Taliban and whose story has served as a symbol for America's foundering war in AfghanistanVezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Nazi Prisons in the British Isles(2020) CARR, GILLYWhat was it like to be a prisoner of the Nazis in Britain during the Second World War? The first systematic study of the sources relating to prisons in Jersey and Guernsey during the German occupation. Vivid insight into the experience of the prisoners whVezava: Trda35,05 €
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Vintage Roger(2021) MORTIMER, ROGERA self-deprecating and humorous account of life in the Coldstream Guards followed by a wry, witty collection of letters that provides unique insight into life as a POW during the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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No Mercy from the Japanese(2019) WYATT, JOHN,LOWRY, CECILFirst hand accounts of 3 years captivity in Singapore, the Burma Railway and on Hellships"Vezava: Mehka18,21 €
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British Partisan(2019) ROSS, MICHAELA classic WW2 POW memoir of capture and escape.Vezava: Trda28,03 €
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Prisoners on Cannock Chase(2020) PURSEHOUSE, RICHARDThe most comprehensive account of the Cannock Chase prisoner of war camp ever published.Vezava: Trda28,03 €
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Stalag Luft I(2018)This official account of this prisoner of war camp was written for the War Office at the end of the war, drawing on testimony and information from the prisoner themselves.Vezava: Trda35,05 €
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Mauritanian(2021) SLAHI, MOHAMEDOU OULDThe international bestseller that set the world on fire, told in full: Mohamedou Ould Slahi's unflinching account of his fourteen years of detention without charge in Guantanamo BayVezava: Mehka16,62 €
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War Behind the Wire(2014) LEWIS-STEMPEL, JOHNThe last untold story of the First World War: the fortunes and fates of 170,000 British soldiers captured by the enemy.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €
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Saboteur of Auschwitz(2019) RUSHTON, COLINForced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, British soldier Arthur Dodd thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he risked his life to sabotage Nazi industrial work and alleviate the suffering of Jewish prisonersVezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Escape from Stalag Luft III(2019) MULLER, JENSHonest account by one of only three successful escapees from Stalag Luft III.Vezava: Trda28,03 €