South Africa, 1901: At the height of the Second Boer War, Sarah van der Watt and her son are taken from their farm by force to Bloemfontein Concentration Camp where, the English promise, they will be safe.Johannesburg, 2010: Sixteen-...
Prisoners of war
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Auteur:Tom ClancySommaire:CRIME & MYSTERY. It is 1970. Back in the US after serving as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam, John Kelly meets a woman who will change his life forever. She has recently escaped from a nightmare world of unimaginable suffering, yet before...
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Auteur:Jack HigginsSommaire:Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed specifically for brainwashing. His beautiful Chinese "instructor", Madame NY, seduces him into confusion, but...
- Auteur:Keith, Anges NewtonSommaire:
"Three Came Home" tells of the author's time in Japanese POW and civilian internee camps in North Borneo and Sarawak, and was made into a film of the same name in 1950. It describes Keith's life in North Borneo in the period immediately...
- Auteur:Arthurson, WayneSommaire:
A little known chapter of wartime Canada, the government maintained several German prisoner-of-war camps in Southern Alberta during World War II. Camp 133 was one of these camps. Veteran Guards were responsible for securing the...
- Auteur:Strauss, GwenSommaire:
This program includes a bonus conversation with the author, as well as an archival recording of Martine Podliasky singing the Champs de Marais at her mother, Hélène Podliasky's, funeral. The Nine follows the true story of the...
- Auteur:Fitzgerald, JackSommaire:
The Jack Ford Story: The Newfoundlander in Nagasaki is an amazing story of endurance, courage and survival. In 1940, Jack Ford was an employee of the Newfoundland Railway in a remote settlement of Newfoundland. Having volunteered for...
- Auteur:Tan, Twan EngSommaire:
In 1951, Yun Ling, the only survivor of a Japanese war camp, seeks shelter with Aritomo, the owner of the only Japanese garden in Malaya. As the months pass, Aritomo and Yun Ling open to each other, revealing life-altering secrets.
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Auteur:Humphreys, HelenSommaire:Resigned to living out the Second World War in a German POW camp, James Hunter, an English officer, begins studying a pair of redstarts near the camp. His interest in the birds captures the attention of the Kommandant and gives James...
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Auteur:Flanagan, AndySommaire:Near the end of October 1941, a few hundred soldiers from New Brunswick were among the 1,975 Canadian troops who set sail from Vancouver to reinforce the British Colony of Hong Kong. Within two short months, after a hard-fought but...
- Auteur:Bass, RickSommaire:
When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed.
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Auteur:DeMille, NelsonSommaire:On a dark road deep inside Russia, a young American tourist picks up a most unusual passenger a US POW on the run with an incredible secret to reveal to an unsuspecting world. The secret concerns a place called Mrs. Ivanova's Charm...
- Auteur:Ransom, John L.Sommaire:
Ransom was 20 when he was captured and made prisoner of war in 1863 at Andersonville, Georgia. In prison, he was surrounded by death, disease and cruelty, but he survived to write this true account.
- Auteur:Newcomb, KerrySommaire:
Galloping toward his Mexican pursuers, Johnny Anthem reaches down to rescue his unhorsed brother Vin--who instead pistol-whips Johnny, steals his horse, and leaves him for dead. Nine months later, Johnny escapes the brutality of the...
- Auteur:Kovala, LisaSommaire:
As the first Russian bombs drop on Oulu, Finland in early 1940 during the Winter War, Aarne Kovala is a young boy with a great love of the sea. While the war rages, Aarne takes fate into his own hands and joins the Finnish merchant...
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Auteur:AviSommaire:In 1776, after witnessing the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, newly occupied by the British army, young Sophia Calderwood resolves to do all she can to help the American cause, including becoming a spy.
- Auteur:Morris, HeatherSommaire:
This program is read by Laura Carmichael, who plays Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey. It also includes a dedication, author's note, and two afterwords, all read by the author, as well as two songs by the Sydney Women's...
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Auteur:Gupta, AshisSommaire:The Siberian Odyssey of Hans Schroeder is the ironic and tragic story of a young German mesmerized by the Hitler Youth aura who finds himself on the Russian front where he is taken prisoner. Years later, he is released from his Siberian...
- Auteur:Johnstone, William W.Sommaire:
Bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone give the classic American hero a real shot in the arm'in this epic story of a Rebel doctor fighting for justice in the aftermath of the Civil War. On the blood-stained...
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