Gautham Hazarika's The Forgotten Indian Prisoners of World War II puts the spotlight on the bravery and difficulties faced by ...
The remarkable story of two men who were shot down over Germany - and then survived in prisoner of war camps - has been told ...
The game of Monopoly is complex, and in its appeal to one’s inner tycoon, all American. Its rise to popularity began when the Salem, Massachusetts, firm Parker Brothers bought the rights to it. Before ...
NPR's Leila Fadel talks to author Richard Flanagan about what it means to live amid the horror of warfare. The Australian writer Richard Flanagan traces his very being to his father surviving being a ...
Cincinnati resident Patricia Schoborg spoke with WYSO about her former POW father Boob Doolan who appears in the documentary ...
In “Prisoner of Lies,” Barry Werth tells the story of a young C.I.A. operative who spent two decades waiting out the postwar era in a Chinese jail cell. The C.I.A. officer John T. Downey at a news ...
During the lesser-known 1943 Sobibor Uprising, several hundred Jews fled into the forests of Poland, where many were tracked down and shot. Fifty-eight Sobibor inmates survived the war Meilan Solly - ...
A generation of Ukrainian men has been shaped by the bloodiest war in Europe since World War II. Serhiy Hrebinyk, 25 years old and just released from a Russian prison, is one of them. A generation of ...