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• World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction

• The orphans of Singapore (Priv. pub. by G.A. Baltis, 1943), by George Alexander Baltis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• Hearings on Cold War, Korea, WWII POWS : hearings before the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... November 10 and 11, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Study of the Health of World War II prisoners of war : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-first Congress, second session, on H.R. 8848, a bill to provide for a study of the mental and physical sequelae of malnutrition and starvation suffered by prisoners of war and civilian internees during World War II, September 15, 1950. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by United States House Committee on Veterans' Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prisoners of War Bulletin, by American National Red Cross (partial serial archives)

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• A follow-up study of World War II prisoners of war ([U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1955), by Bernard Milton Cohen and Maurice Z. Cooper (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Train Journey: Transit, Captivity, and Witnessing in the Holocaust (New York and Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 2010), by Simone Gigliotti (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Death and devastation on the Curzon line : the story of the deportations from the Ukraine (Committee against Mass Expulsion in cooperation with the Ukrrainian Congress Committee of America, 1948), by Walter Dushnyck and Committee Against Mass Expulsion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hearings on Cold War, Korea, WWII POWS : hearings before the Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, second session ... November 10 and 11, 1992. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1993), by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Missing Persons Act Amendment Relating to Travel of Dependents : hearings before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, Eighty-First Congress, second session, on May 5, 1950. (U.S. G.P.O., 1950), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations from World War II to Iraq (MG-934-OSD; c2011), by Cheryl Benard, Edward O'Connell, Cathryn Quantic Thurston, Andrés Villamizar, Elvira N. Loredo, Thomas Sullivan, and Jeremiah Goulka (PDF with commentary at rand.org)
• Investigations of the national war effort. Report, Committee on military affairs, House of representatives, Seventy-eighth Congress, second session, pursuant to H. Res. 30, a resolution authorizing the Committee on military affairs and the Committee on naval affairs to study the progress of the nationa war effort. (U. S. Govt. print. off., 1944), by United States House Committee on Military Affairs and Andrew Jackson May (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prisoners at Kota Cane (Cornell Modern Indonesia Project, Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University, 1986), by Leon Salim (page images at HathiTrust)

• Dachau (ca.1945), by Alfred L. Howes (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Man's Inhumanity: A True Account of Life in a Concentration Camp (1949), by Father Melchior (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes From the Gallows (New York: New Century Publishers, 1948), by Julius Fučík (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Gas Vans: A Critical Investigation (Washington: Barnes Review, c2011), by Santiago Alvarez, contrib. by Pierre Marais (PDF at holocausthandbooks.com)
• The Holocaust Story and the Lies of Ulysses: A Study of the Nazi Concentration Camps and the Alleged Extermination of European Jewry (ca. 1977), by Paul Rassinier, trans. by Adam Robbins, contrib. by Pierre Hofstetter (HTML at ihr.org)
• Diary of a kriegie (Thomas Y. Crowell company, 1946), by Edward William Beattie (page images at HathiTrust)
• P. O. W. (Whittlesey house, McGraw-Hill book company, inc., 1945), by Guy Morgan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kriegie (Nelson, 1960), by Kenneth W Simmons (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Altmark affair (Macmillan, 1955), by Willi Frischauer and Robert Jackson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jamás olvidaremos. ([Washington, 1945), by United States. Office of Inter-American Affairs (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Captured; my experiences as an ambulance driver and as a prisoner of the Nazis (Appleton-Century, 1942), by Bessy Myers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vacation with pay, being an account of my stay at the German rest camp for tired allied airmen at beautiful Barth-on-the-Baltic. (Destiny Publishers, 1947), by Alan Harrison Newcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• We prisoners of war; sixteen British officers and soldiers speak from a German prison camp (Association Press, 1942), by Tracy Strong (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chez les Fritz : notes et croquis de captivité (L'Édition française illustree, 1919), by Joseph Hémard (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Four months a prisoner of war in 1945 (Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, Illinois State Geological Survey, 2007), by Jack Aaron Simon and Illinois State Geological Survey (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial dates (Yorzait) of the martyred Jews of Dachau (Jewish Labor Committee, 1947), by Joel Zak, Jacob Silberstein, Josef Lindenberger, and Jewish Labor Committee (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Blood Brothers: A Medic's Sketch Book (c1985), by Eugene C. Jacobs, ed. by Sam Rohlfing (Gutenberg text)
• Hong Kong Aftermath (New York: Smith and Durrell, 1943), by Wenzell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Santo Tomas Internment Camp: Internews; Campus Health (compilation of issues of two Santo Tomas camp periodicals for internees, with commentary; New York: Relief for Americans in Philippines, c1942) (page images at HathiTrust)
• For of Such: A Memorial to Captain Lawrence Chandler Baldwin (ca. 1946), by Karl F. Baldwin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sold for silver, an autobiography. (World Pub. Co., 1958), by Janet Lim (page images at HathiTrust)
• Reprieve from hell (Pageant Press, 1961), by Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of rice and men. (Dorrance, 1947), by Robert Victor Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back from the living dead : an original story describing the infamous March of Death ; 33 months in a Japanese prison and liberation by the Rangers ([publisher not identified], 1945), by Bertram Bank (page images at HathiTrust)
• Until they eat stones (J. B. Lippincott company, 1944), by Russell Brines (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rice and salt a history of the defense and occupation of Mindanao during World War II. (Naylor Co., 1962), by John Hugh McGee (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of Wake island (J. B. Lippincott company, 1947), by James P. S. Devereux (page images at HathiTrust)
• Yanks don't cry. (B. Geis Associates :, 1963), by Martin Boyle (page images at HathiTrust)
• The hard way home. (Infantry Journal Press, 1947), by William C. Braly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prisoner of the Japs (A.A. Knopf, 1943), by Gwen Dew (page images at HathiTrust)
• So sorry, no peace (The Viking press, 1944), by Royal Arch Gunnison (page images at HathiTrust)
• The drainpipe diary. (Vantage press, 1957), by Tressa R. Cates (page images at HathiTrust)
• "You'll die in Singapore!" (Dutton, 1955), by Charles McCormac (page images at HathiTrust)
• By eastern windows; the story of a battle of souls and minds in the prison camps of Sumatra. (C. Scribner's sons, 1949), by William H. McDougall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Underground from Hongkong (E.P. Dutton and company, inc., 1943), by Benjamin A. Proulx (page images at HathiTrust)
• The sun was darkened. (Chapman & Grimes, 1947), by Alice Franklin Bryant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bread and rice (Thurston Macauley Associates, 1947), by Doris Rubens Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Escape from Corregidor. (H. Regnery Co., 1958), by Edgar D. Whitcomb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ambassador in bonds! (Pinebrook book club, 1946), by Esther Yerger Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Blood on the Rising Sun : a factual story of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines (DeTanko Publishers, 1957), by Adalia Márquez (page images at HathiTrust)
• I was there...when it happened in China. (Abingdon-Cokesbury Press, 1947), by Mary Culler White (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corregidor G.I. (Highland press, 1948), by Jerome B. Leek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• God's arms around us. (Vantage Press, 1960), by William R. Moule (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wake, war and waiting. (Exposition Press, 1950), by Rodney Kephart (page images at HathiTrust)
• Former US World War II POW's (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2000), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatment of American prisoners of war in Manchuria : hearing before the Subcommittee on Compensation, Pension, and Insurance of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session, September 17, 1986. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 1986), by Pension United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Compensation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Justice for United States Prisoners of War Act of 2001 : hearing before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, on H.R. 1198, September 25, 2002. (U.S. G.P.O. :, 2002), by Border Security United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Immigration (page images at HathiTrust)
• Subcommittee hearings on H.R. 2208, amending Missing Persons Act to provide benefits to certain members of Philippine Scouts (U.S. G.P.O., 1956), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 1 (page images at HathiTrust)
• Compensation for civilian employees of wartime contractors outside the continental limits of the United States : hearing before Subcommittee No. 6 of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Eightieth Congress, second session, on H.R. 6045, a bill amending the act approved December 2, 1942, which provides compensation for injury, death, or detention of employees of contractors with the United States and certain other persons, or reimbursement therefor, with report on H.R. 6045, appended. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1948), by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Relief for American citizens captured and interned by Japanese : hearing before a subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eightieth Congress, first session, on S. 1261, a bill to provide emergency relief for American citizens captured on American sovereign territory by the armed forces of Japan, and for other purposes. July 16, 1947. (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1947), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Experiences in the Philippines (Oral History Program, California State University, Fullerton, 1977), by Maurice Chapman, Michael Paul Onorato, and Virginia Chapman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Life-on rice (Carlton Press, 1963), by Donald L. Baker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Of rice and men (Leicht Press, 1951), by Robert Victor Reynolds (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Exchange and treatment of prisoners of war. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1943), by Elbert Duncan Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)
• American prisoners of war in th Far East. (U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1944), by Elbert Duncan Thomas (page images at HathiTrust)

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