Military - POWs & Escapers from Capricorn Books

Toronto: Thomas Allen, 2013. 288 pp, 9 1/4" H. Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs, reproductions. "On the night of March 24, 1944, eighty Commonwealth airmen crawled through a 400-foot-long tunnel, code-named 'Harry', and most slipped into the darkness of a pine forest beyond the wire of Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner-of-war compound near Sagan, Poland. The event became known… Read more about this item

Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2008. 148 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs. "After joining the Grenadier Guards in 1937, Cyril Feebery served in the British Expeditionary Force before being evacuated wounded from Dunkirk. Undeterred he volunteered for the newly formed Commandos and, on completion of their rigorous training in Scotland, was sent to the Middle East to be a… Read more about this item

Doubleday Canada, 2002. 341 pp, 10 1/4" H. B&w photographs. "The experiences of the men and women included here are powerful and unforgettable, whether it is the story of a parachuter who relives his night-blind drop behind enemy lines or a prisoner of war who describes the unlikely friendship that developed between a German guard and two of his… Read more about this item

Toronto: Self-published, 2013. 186 pp, 9" H. Signed on title page: "Toni Harting / 31 May (?) 13". B&w photographs, map. "(A)ims to provide insight into, and information about, the mentality, philosophy, and motivation of the Japanese people, especially the Japanese military, before and during the 1941-1945 war in the Pacific, as well as their system of… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. 252 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "Based on extensive interviews which the author had with Douglas Bader during the last thirteen years of his life, it tells the full story from his childhood to his work with the disabled in later life. After a flying accident in which he lost his legs,… Read more about this item

Regina : School Aids and Text Book Publishing Co., 1945. 62 pp, 8" H. Green patterned endpapers, 2 b&w photographs, drawing. These ballads were written by an officer of the South Saskatchewan Regiment while in a German POW camp (Oflag VII/B) during WWII. Interior - two small splits in paper of front hinge, light browning to edges… Read more about this item

Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Frontline, 2011. 205 pp, 9 1/2" H. B&w photographs, map. "In July 1942, Major Gordon Lett was taken prisoner at the fall of Tobruk. After fourteen months in the notorious prison camps at Bari and Chieti, he escaped at the Armistice of September 1943 from the camp at Veano and took to the mountains… Read more about this item

London: London Stamp Exchange, 1976. 28 pp, 8 1/4" H. "This list contains the names of British Army personnel who were reported 'Missing' and, in most cases, their eventual classification. Names of those definitely identified as KIA (i.e. who never became POWs) have in general been withdrawn although there are one or two exceptions in an endeavour to… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury: Airlife, 1995. 252 pp, large 8vo (9 1/2" H). B&w photographs. "Based on extensive interviews which the author had with Douglas Bader during the last thirteen years of his life, it tells the full story from his childhood to his work with the disabled in later life. After a flying accident in which he lost his legs,… Read more about this item

Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988. 240 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w illustrations. "(T)ells the story of the men who, from the days of the Hundred Years War to the present day, were captives in wartime. It is a tale that does humanity little credit. Prisoners have been starved, tortured, brainwashed, and housed in conditions that would shame a… Read more about this item

Victoria, Australia.: Penguin, 1990. 475 pp, 7 3/4" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "This (is the) fascinating account of Sir Edward Dunlop's experiences as senior medical officer in prisoner-of-war camps in Java and on the Burma-Thailand Railway." Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - light browning to edges of text block, light rubbing.. Sixth… Read more about this item

Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. 263 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). B&w photographs, drawings, maps. "Off-course after a failed mission over Frankfurt in 1941, Bobby Keefer and his best friend Jack Calder found themselves forced to bail out of their twin-engine Wellington over Southern Ireland. Much to their surprise, rather than being returned to their squadron in England,… Read more about this item

Shrewsbury: Air Life, 1993. 116 pp, small 4to (10 7/16" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w and colour reproductions of the author/artist's work. "John Worsley was one of the very few active service artists of the Second World War, and in this book he recalls his experiences both in active sea warfare and later as a prisoner of war. At… Read more about this item

Edmonton: Hurtig, 1983. 303 pp, 8 3/4" H. B&w photographs. "There were more than nine thousand Canadians taken prisoner during World War II. Here, in their own words, are the stories of 165 of them - soldiers, airmen, sailors, captured in Europe and the Far East and imprisoned in camps in Germany, Italy, Hong Kong, and Japan. Forty years… Read more about this item

Ottawa: Ottawa Branch, Naval Officers' Associations of Canada, 1988. 240 pp, large 8vo (9 1/4" H). Contents: From the Beginning to the first Disaster; Everyone was "Tea-ing" and then the War came; There, but for the Flip of a Coin; Big Robbie's War; To the Engineroom by Motorcycle; Not all the Work was done at Sea; Saga of a… Read more about this item

Stanmore, New South Wales : Cassell Australia, 1979. 240 pp, 8vo (8 5/8" H). Map/plan endpapers, b&w photographs. "In the early morning of 5 August 1944, outside the little Australian township of Cowra, the greatest prison break in world history took place. More than 1100 Japanese prisoners of war took part, and 231 of them were killed; 334 of… Read more about this item

Kew, Surrey: PRO Publications, 2001. 112 pp, large 8vo (9 5/8" H). "This third expanded edition of the bestselling 'Army Service Records of the First World War' brings you the most up-to-date information on the records relating to service in the British and Indian Armies between 1914 and 1918. It covers officers, other ranks, and nurses, explaining in detail… Read more about this item

Manhattan, Kansas: Sunflower University Press, 1990. 144 pp, 8vo (8 15/16" H). B&w photographs, map. "Mel TenHaken survived a plane crash while training to be a World War II radio-operator-gunner; he parachuted from a disabled bomber after hitting a German target; and he spent five months as a prisoner of war in Germany, then later was liberated by coarse… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1982. 128 pp, large 8vo (9 7/8" H). Profusely illustrated with b&w photographs. "Colditz Castle is the Eiger North Wall of World War Two POW camps. It was the ultimate fortress for the bravest and the best, for the most ingenious, most determined and daredevil spirits who had already effected an exit from lesser establishments… Read more about this item

London: Leo Cooper, 1973. 184 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H). B&w photographs. "Few men can lay claim to a more extraordinary military career than Willy Trebich. At the outbreak of the Second World War he belonged to both the HAC (Honourable Artillery Company) and to the Hilter Youth. Nurtured in the international society of the Cote d'Azur, in 1939 he… Read more about this item