Park Prisoners - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Park Prisoners write by W. A. Waiser. This book was released on 1995. Park Prisoners available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. COVERS : Banff National Park, Elk Island National Park, Glacier National Park, Jasper National Park, Kootenay National Park, Mount Revelstoke National Park, Point Pelee National Park, Prince Albert National Park, Riding Mountain National Park, Waterton Lakes National Park, Yoho National Park.
Prisoners of the Home Front
Prisoners of the Home Front - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prisoners of the Home Front write by Martin F. Auger. This book was released on 2011-11-01. Prisoners of the Home Front available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the middle of the most destructive conflict in human history, the Second World War, almost 40,000 Germans civilians and prisoners of war were detained in internment and work camps across Canada. Prisoners of the Home Front details the organization and day-to-day affairs of these internment camps and reveals the experience of their inmates. Auger concludes that Canada abided by the Geneva Convention; its treatment of German prisoners was humane. This book sheds light on life behind barbed wire, filling an important void in our knowledge of the Canadian home front during the Second World War.
The Great Desert Escape
The Great Desert Escape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Desert Escape write by Keith Warren Lloyd. This book was released on 2019-04-01. The Great Desert Escape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dramatic, highly readable, and painstakingly researched, The Great Desert Escape brings to light a little-known escape by 25 determined German sailors from an American prisoner-of-war camp. The disciplined Germans tunneled unnoticed through rock-hard, sunbaked soil and crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert. They were heading for Mexico, where there were sympathizers who could help them return to the Fatherland. It was the only large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in US history. Wrung from contemporary newspaper articles, interviews, and first-person accounts from escapees and the law enforcement officers who pursued them, The Great Desert Escape brings history to life. At the US Army’s prisoner-of-war camp at Papago Park just outside of Phoenix, life was, at the best of times, uneasy for the German Kreigsmariners. On the outside of their prison fences were Americans who wanted nothing more than to see them die slow deaths for their perceived roles in killing fathers and brothers in Europe. Many of these German prisoners had heard rumors of execution for those who escaped. On the inside were rabid Nazis determined to get home and continue the fight. At Papago Park in March 1944, a newly arrived prisoner who was believed to have divulged classified information to the Americans was murdered—hung in one of the barracks by seven of his fellow prisoners. The prisoners of war dug a tunnel 6 feet deep and 178 feet long, finishing in December 1944. Once free of the camp, the 25 Germans scattered. The cold and rainy weather caused several of the escapees to turn themselves in. One attempted to hitchhike his way into Phoenix, his accent betraying him. Others lived like coyotes among the rocks and caves overlooking Papago Park. All the while, the escapees were pursued by soldiers, federal agents, police and Native American trackers determined to stop them from reaching Mexico and freedom.
Alcatraz, the Prison
Alcatraz, the Prison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alcatraz, the Prison write by Jay Stuller. This book was released on 1998. Alcatraz, the Prison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In words and photographs, this book captures the most famous -- or infamous -- aspect of the island's history, its years as a maximum-security federal penitentiary. Called variously "Uncle Sam's Devil's Island, " "Hellcatraz, " and other fearsome names, Alcatraz had a reputation among convicts as the prison of last resort.
Prisoners of the Empire
Prisoners of the Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prisoners of the Empire write by Sarah Kovner. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Prisoners of the Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
