Tag: Prisoners

Free Download Robert Widders, "The Emperor’s Irish Slaves: Prisoners Of The Japanese During The Second World War"
English | ISBN: 1845887271 | 2012 | 200 pages | EPUB | 1199 KB
Sister Mary Cooper died in a Japanese prison camp on 26 June 1943, from the combined effects of starvation, brutality and tropical diseases. Timothy Kenneally and Patrick Fitzgerald tried to escape from a slave labour camp on the Burma Railway. They were caught, tortured – crucified – and then executed on 27 March 1943. And Patrick Carberry spent the summer of 1943 cremating the emaciated corpses of his comrades, who had died from cholera. These people had two things in common: they were Irish citizens serving with the British armed forces; and they were amongst more than 650 Irishmen and women who became prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1942. Nearly a quarter of them were murdered whilst in Japanese captivity – this is their story. Combining historical narrative with first-hand accounts of the conditions in Japanese PoW camps, Robert Widders brings to light their suffering and the strength that saw them home again.

Free Download Axis Prisoners of War in Tennessee: Coerced Labor and the Captive Enemy on the Home Front, 1941-1946 by Antonio S. Thompson
English | March 9, 2023 | ISBN: 1476681678 | 255 pages | EPUB | 6.15 Mb
During World War II, Axis prisoners of war received arguably better treatment in the U.S. than anywhere else. Bound by the Geneva Convention but also hoping for reciprocal treatment of American POWs, the U.S. sought to humanely house and employ 425,000 Axis prisoners, many in rural communities in the South.

Free Download Nagasaki: The Forgotten Prisoners by John Willis
English | December 1, 2023 | ISBN: 1912914662 | 380 pages | EPUB | 2.80 Mb
Ever wondered about the untold stories of bravery and resilience during World War II?

Free Download Prisoners Of The Third Reich by W E Welbourne
English | November 3, 2021 | ISBN: 1638121567 | 652 pages | EPUB | 0.85 Mb
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Free Download Cormac Behan, "Citizen Convicts: Prisoners, Politics and the Vote"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0719088380 | EPUB | pages: 240 | 0.7 mb
Prisoner enfranchisement remains one of the few contested electoral issues in twenty-first-century democracies. It is at the intersection of punishment and representative government. Many jurisdictions remain divided on whether or not prisoners should be allowed access to the franchise. This book investigates the experience of prisoner enfranchisement in the Republic of Ireland. It examines the issue in a comparative context, beginning by locating prisoner enfranchisement in a theoretical framework, exploring the arguments for and against allowing prisoners to vote. Drawing on global developments in jurisprudence and penal policy, it examines the background to, and wider significance of, this change in the law.

Free Download Parole: The Fate of Prisoners in My Hands and The High-Stake Risks of Getting it Wrong (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CW2BK345 | 2024 | 6 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 389 MB
Author: Rob McKeon
Narrator: Rob McKeon
Deciding if a prisoner should stay in prison or be released is no mean feat. Enter the fascinating world of the parole board with Rob McKeon of BBC’s Parole. You don’t know what you don’t know. How can you predict the future when you don’t know what you don’t know? Rob McKeon is a member of Britain’s parole board, making tough, life-changing decisions about whether a prisoner is safe to return to society; impacting not only prisoners and their victims, but also the general public. This vital work has been the subject of a BBC television documentary, Parole. For 12 years, Rob has been handling sensitive and high-profile cases, dealing with the social, moral, and emotional pressures that come with this difficult job. This book provides unique insight into his work, with a compelling behind-the-scenes look at parole hearings.

Free Download Richard Van Emden, "Prisoners of the Kaiser (The Last Pows of the Great War)"
English | 2009 | pages: 208 | ISBN: 1848840780, 0850527341 | EPUB | 16,1 mb
Drawing on the memories of the last surviving prisoners of the 1914-1918 war, this book tells the dramatic story of life as a POW in Germany. Stories include the shock of capture on the Western Front, to the grind of daily life in imprisonment in Germany. Veterans recall work in salt mines, punishments, and escape attempts, as well as the torture of starvation and the relief at their eventual release. Vivid stories are told using over 200 photographs and illustrations, almost all never published before.

Free Download Captives of Liberty: Prisoners of War and the Politics of Vengeance in the American Revolution (Early American Studies) by T. Cole Jones
English | November 15, 2019 | ISBN: 0812251695 | 336 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
Contrary to popular belief, the American Revolutionary War was not a limited and restrained struggle for political self-determination. From the onset of hostilities, British authorities viewed their American foes as traitors to be punished, and British abuse of American prisoners, both tacitly condoned and at times officially sanctioned, proliferated. Meanwhile, more than seventeen thousand British and allied soldiers fell into American hands during the Revolution. For a fledgling nation that could barely afford to keep an army in the field, the issue of how to manage prisoners of war was daunting.

Free Download Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1956 by Bob Moore
English | August 5, 2022 | ISBN: 019884039X | True EPUB | 560 pages | 3.5 MB
The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless highlights the fact that captivity was one of the most common experiences for all those in uniform – even more common than frontline service. Despite this, and the huge literature on so many aspects of the war, prisoner of war histories have remained a separate and sometimes isolated element in the wider national chronicles of the conflict constructed in the post war era. Prisoners of every nationality had their own narratives of military service and captivity.

Free Download Diane Glancy, "Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education"
English | ISBN: 0803249675 | 2014 | 136 pages | AZW3 | 873 KB
At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as "trouble causers," arrived to curious, boisterous crowds eager to see the Indian warriors they knew only from imagination. Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education is an evocative work of creative nonfiction, weaving together history, oral traditions, and personal experience to tell the story of these Indian prisoners.