A work by the Italian-Jewish writer, Primo Levi.

Allegory of the war between oppressor and oppressed.

This book is also a moving account of the degradation that Rhodes suffered for three years as a prisoner of war, and includes his rare, ground observer’s view of the firebombings of Tokyo and Yokohama.

The miseries endured by American seamen during the Revolutionary War are documented in Captain Dring's account of his experience as a prisoner on the Jersey off the coast of Long Island. Originally published in 1829.

Records the efforts of six hundred British and American officers to escape from a Nazi prison camp.

Greenberg, a leading expert on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story of the first one hundred days of Guantánamo through a group of career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's ...

In this collection of essays based on his time as a Jewish prisoner in the Nazi camps, Primo Levi creates a series of sketches of the people he met who retained their humanity even in the most inhumane circumstances.

Why, he asks, were only fourteen American soldiers tried as collaborators when thousands of others who admitted to some of the same offenses were not?".

Clancy shows how an ordinary man crossed the lines of justice and morality to become the CIA legend Mr. Clark.

"Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and obscurity to see his pictures hung in London's Tate Gallery.