In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords. — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive. — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
The PoWs went through something so horrible, you don't know who's coming back. — Gideon Raff Copy Share Image
The final effort came when our reconnaissance team reported contact with the POWs and their guards by radio near midnight at a… — Bo Gritz Copy Share Image
“Every morning, the Omori POWs were assembled and ordered to call out their number in Japanese. After November 1, 1944, the man… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
I remember the Korean War very well. And I remember the soldiers who were POWs who supposedly were "brainwashed," quote, unquote, who… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
“Human beings in there took turns standing or lying down. The legs of those who stood were like fence posts driven into… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was necessary to bluff the Japanese camp commanders, with whatever authority I could muster, that I had come officially to ensure… — Wilfred Burchett Copy Share Image
Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding… — John Yoo Copy Share Image
“In spite of everything, all the POWs except for the Russians were receiving food parcels and medication from the International Red Cross.… — Anna Timofeeva-Egorova Copy Share Image
“At least 30,000, possibly more, German POWs may have died in French captivity, of starvation and malnutrition, of disease and neglect and… — Frederick Taylor Copy Share Image
“At last, somebody in line steps forward. “I can commit,” he says. He’s a tall, lean young man with a rifle slung… — Summer Lane Copy Share Image
“As the prisoners’ commanding officer and senior medical officer, Dorrigo Evans reported to Major Nakamura that four men had died the day… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“The organization of the camps in the east revealed a contempt for life, the life of Slavs and Asians and Jews anyway,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges,… — Helen Picca Copy Share Image
