The Japanese were known for many of their wartime atrocities, but actually reading this book - it opened my eyes to things that I did not know before. The author is going to take you on a journey, giving you a look at what a Japanese soldier would do - and to welcome death. It was interesting. Having known some of the information through past classes, this book really lays out the total warfare and brutality that was committed during the war.
Good read, but had to read in short bursts. Still will highly recommend this one!
NetGalley, Rebecca Hill
The Japanese were known for many of their wartime atrocities, but actually reading this book - it opened my eyes to things that I did not know before. The author is going to take you on a journey, giving you a look at what a Japanese soldier would do - and to welcome death. It was interesting. Having known some of the information through past classes, this book really lays out the total warfare and brutality that was committed during the war.
Good read, but had to read in short bursts. Still will highly recommend this one!
NetGalley, Rebecca Hill
Article: 80 years on, PoW's hell on Death Railway revealed
Daily Mirror, August 2023
Article: 80 years on, PoW's hell on Death Railway revealed
Daily Mirror, August 2023
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars THE TRAUMA OF CAPTIVITY is a deeply thought-provoking and emotionally charged exploration of the psychological and emotional consequences of captivity. Written with remarkable insight and sensitivity, Cook delves into the harrowing experiences of prisoners of war (POWs) who have endured captivity in various contexts, shedding light on the lasting trauma they bear long after their physical freedom has been restored. This book shows the profound impact that captivity has on the human psyche. It offers a compelling examination of the complex emotions, cognitive distortions, and adaptive responses that arise from the traumatic experience of being confined against one's will. For example: One of the effects of imprisonment is social degradation: the prisoner feels as if he is unable to make decisions for himself and he is deprived of the basic needs of life: food, freedom, and pleasure. A POWs story can evoke sympathy, national pride, and jingoism. Despite the.. Read more
NetGalley, Kyle Wendy Skultety
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars THE TRAUMA OF CAPTIVITY is a deeply thought-provoking and emotionally charged exploration of the psychological and emotional consequences of captivity. Written with remarkable insight and sensitivity, Cook delves into the harrowing experiences of prisoners of war (POWs) who have endured captivity in various contexts, shedding light on the lasting trauma they bear long after their physical freedom has been restored. This book shows the profound impact that captivity has on the human psyche. It offers a compelling examination of the complex emotions, cognitive distortions, and adaptive responses that arise from the traumatic experience of being confined against one's will. For example: One of the effects of imprisonment is social degradation: the prisoner feels as if he is unable to make decisions for himself and he is deprived of the basic needs of life: food, freedom, and pleasure. A POWs story can evoke sympathy, national pride, and jingoism. Despite the.. Read more
NetGalley, Kyle Wendy Skultety
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
What is it about those who are downed and work to keep from being captured in wartime. This is a heroic tale of many men who have done it.
NetGalley, Mike Michelsen
[b]Rating[/b]: 5 out of 5 stars
What is it about those who are downed and work to keep from being captured in wartime. This is a heroic tale of many men who have done it.
NetGalley, Mike Michelsen
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Behind the Wire
Philip Kaplan presents us here with a riveting account of the Allied experience behind enemy lines, detailing the trials and tribulations experienced by the British and American airmen who were shot down in European skies during World War Two, to be incarcerated 'behind the wire' in enemy camps. With eloquence and a clear enthusiasm for the subject… Read more...
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A Talent for Adventure
Books on prison camps, daring escapes and life with the Resistance abound. Pat Spooner's story is different and more compelling in one important respect. It recounts the gripping and dramatic rescue of two senior British generals (one a VC) and an air vice marshal from occupied Italy by the author and his companion who had themselves both escaped from… Read more...
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Prisoner of the Gestapo
Tom Firth begins his extraordinary memoir by describing his unusual childhood in Japan and the devastating Yokohama earthquake in 1923. In 1930 the family settled in his mother’s native Poland only to split up when Poland was overrun by the Nazis and the Russians in 1939. Whilst his father and older brother were in England, Tom found himself trapped… Read more...
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Gunther Pluschow
Gunther Plüschow of the German Imperial Navy holds a unique place in history - during the First World War he was the only German prisoner of war ever to escape from the British mainland and make it all the way back to the Fatherland. Yet, although his daring break for freedom in 1915 is astonishing in its own right, Plüschow was much more than simply… Read more...
Very few British soldiers could lay claim to such a full war as Leslie Young. Having survived the retreat to and evacuation from Dunkirk, he volunteered for the newly formed Commandos and took part in their first major operation, the raid on the Lofoten Islands. He fought and was captured in Tunisia. He escaped in Italy before his PoW camp at Fontanellato… Read more...
Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded in this well-written, candid and perceptive memoir the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, fired with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the… Read more...
