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An American dream : the life of an African American soldier and POW who spent twelve years in commun


Adams, Clarence, 1929-1999.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2007] 2007

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American Guerrilla : The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan,


Guardia, Mike.
[Place of publication not identified] : Casemate Publishers, 2015. 2015

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An American heroine in the French Resistance : the diary and memoir of Virginia d'Albert-Lake


Albert-Lake, Virginia d', 1910-1997.
New York : Fordham University Press, 2006. 2006

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American patriot : the life and wars of Colonel Bud Day


Coram, Robert.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2007] 2007

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As good as dead : [the daring escape of American POWs from a Japanese death camp]


Moore, Stephen L., author.
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2016] 2016

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Bataan survivor : a POW's account of Japanese captivity in World War II


Hardee, David L., 1890-1969, author.
Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, [2016] 2016

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Bread and Rice


Macauley, Doris, author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Barajima Books, [2020] 2020

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A bright and blinding sun : a World War II story of survival, love, and redemption


Brotherton, Marcus, author.
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. 2022

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Captive warriors : a Vietnam POW's story


Johnson, Sam, 1930-2020
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [1992] 1992

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Carlos : a tale of survival


Kunkle, J. L., 1964-
Murrieta, Calif. : I-Socket Presse, [2007] 2007

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Chained eagle


Alvarez, Everett, 1937-
New York : D.I. Fine, [1989] 1989

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Chained eagle : the heroic story of the first American shot down over North Vietnam


Alvarez, Everett, 1937-
Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, 2005. 2005

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A code to keep


Brace, Ernest C.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988. 1988

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Conversations with the enemy : the story of P.F.C. Robert Garwood


Groom, Winston, 1944-2020
New York : Putnam, [1983] 1983

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Counting the days : POWs, internees, and stragglers of World War II in the Pacific


Smith, Craig B.
Washington, DC : Smithsonian Books, ©2012. 2012

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Death march : the survivors of Bataan


Knox, Donald, 1936-
New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1981] 1981

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Defiant : the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and th


Townley, Alvin.
New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2014. 2014

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Defiant : the POWs who endured Vietnam's most infamous prison, the women who fought for them, and th


Townley, Alvin, author.
[Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., [2014] 2014

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Don't give up, don't give in : lessons from an extraordinary life


Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014.
New York : Dey Street Books, 2014. 2014

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Don't give up, don't give in : lessons from an Extraordinary Life


Zamperini, Louis, 1917-2014.
[Place of publication not identified] : It Books, 2014. 2014

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Enemies in love : a German POW, a Black nurse, and an unlikely romance


Clark, Alexis, author.
New York : The New Press, 2018. 2018

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Escape from Laos


Dengler, Dieter.
San Rafael, Calif. : Presidio Press, [1979] 1979

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Evidence not seen : a woman's miraculous faith in the jungles of World War II


Rose, Darlene Deibler, author.
[United States] : HarperAudio, 2014. 2014

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Faith beyond belief : a journey to freedom


Eberly, David, 1947-
Richmond, Va. : Brandylane Publishers, 2003. 2003

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The final mission of Bottoms Up : a World War II pilot's story


Okerstrom, Dennis R., 1946-
Columbia, Missouri ; London : University of Missouri Press, [2011] 2011

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The final mission of Bottoms Up : a World War II pilot's story


Okerstrom, Dennis.
Columbia, Missouri ; London : University of Missouri Press, [2011] 2011

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The flame keepers : the true story of an American soldier's survival inside Stalag 17


Handy, Edward A.
New York : Hyperion, [2004] 2004

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Foo, a Japanese-American prisoner of the Rising Sun : the secret prison diary of Frank "Foo" Fujita


Fujita, Frank, 1921-
Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, [1993] 1993

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Forbidden diary : a record of wartime internment, 1941-1945


Crouter, Natalie, 1898-
New York : B. Franklin, [1980] 1980

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Glory denied : the saga of Jim Thompson, America's longest-held prisoner of war


Philpott, Tom.
New York : Norton, 2001. 2001

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The great escapes of WWII



New York : History Channel : Distributed in the U.S. by New Video, [1997] 2001

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The Gulf between us : love and terror in Desert Storm


Acree, Cynthia Blanchard.
Washington, DC : Brassey's, 2000. 2000

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Hero found : the greatest POW escape of the Vietnam War


Henderson, Bruce, 1946-
New York, NY : HarperCollins, [2010] 2010

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Hero found : [the greatest POW escape of the Vietnam War]


Henderson, Bruce, 1946-
[Old Saybrook, CT] : Tantor Audio, [2010] 2010

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Hero found : [the greatest POW escape of the Vietnam War]


Henderson, Bruce, 1946-
[United States] : Tantor Audio : Made available through hoopla, 2010. 2010

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The Hotel Tacloban


Valentine, Douglas, 1949-
Westport, Conn. : L. Hill, [1984] 1984

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The Hotel Tacloban : The Explosive True Story of One American's Journey to Hell in a Japanese POW Ca


Valentine, Douglas, 1949- author.
[Place of publication not identified] : Open Road Media, [2019] 2019

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I am a soldier, too : the Jessica Lynch story


Bragg, Rick.
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2003] 2003

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I am a soldier, too : the Jessica Lynch story


Bragg, Rick.
Waterville, ME : Thorndike Press, 2004. 2004

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I'm still standing : from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen-- my journey home


Johnson, Shoshana, 1973-
New York : Simon & Schuster, [2010] 2010

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I'm still standing : from captive U.S. soldier to free citizen-- my journey home


Johnson, Shoshana, 1973-
[United States] : Blackstone Audio, Incorporated : Made available through hoopla, 2010. 2010

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In the neighborhood of zero : a World War II memoir


Spanos, William V.
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2010] 2010

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Into the mouth of the cat : the story of Lance Sijan, hero of Vietnam


McConnell, Malcolm.
New York : W.W. Norton, [1985] 1985

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John McCain



[New York, NY] : A&E Television Networks : Distributed by New Video, [2008] 2008

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Keep your airspeed up : the story of a Tuskegee airman


Brown, Harold H., 1924- author.
Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2017] 2017

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Keep your airspeed up : the story of Tuskegee airman Harold H. Brown and Marsha S. Bordner.


Brown, Harold H., 1924- author.
Tuscaloosa, AL : The University of Alabama Press, [2017] 2017

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Last man out


Charles, H. Robert.
Austin, Tex. : Eakin Press, 1988. 1988

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Last man out : Glenn McDole, U.S.M.C., survivor of the Palawan massacre in World War II


Wilbanks, Bob, 1931-
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2004] 2004

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The League of Wives : the untold story of the women who took on the U.S. Government to bring their h


Lee, Heath Hardage, author.
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2019. 2019

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