Minerva Bibliographies: POWs/Vietnam

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POWs

Most Recommended:

  • Allan, Sheila
    Diary of a Girl in Changi, 1941-45

    Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1994
  • Delbo, Charlotte
    Convoy to Auschwitz: women of the French resistance
    Women’s life writings from around the world. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1997
  • Frank, Mary E. V.
    Army and Navy Nurses Held as Prisoners of War During World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 6.2 (1988): 82-90
  • Ginzburg, Evgeniia Semenovna
    Journey into the Whirlwind
    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
  • Gruner, Elliot
    Women as POWs: Forgetting the Rhonda Cornum Story
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 14.1 (1996): 1-14
  • Kaminski, Theresa
    Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific
    University Press of Kansas, 2000
  • Keith, Agnes Newton
    Three Came Home
    Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1981
  • Kenny, Catherine
    Captives: Australian army nurses in Japanese prison camps
    St. Lucia; New York: University of Queensland Press, 1986
  • Norman, Elizabeth
    We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
    Random House, 1999
  • Rawicz, Slavomir
    The Long Walk: A Gamble for Life
    New York: Harper, 1956
  • Shapovalov, Veronica
    Remembering the darkness: women in Soviet prisons
    Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
  • Vilenskii, Semen Samuilovich, John Crowfoot, and Zaiara Veselaia
    Till my tale is told: women’s memoirs of the Gulag
    Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
    Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999

Additional:

  • Booher, Alice
    American Military Women Prisoners of War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 11.1 (1993)
  • Breuer, William B.
    War And American Women: Heroism, Deeds, And Controversy
    Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997
  • Brooks, Margaret
    Passive in War? Women Internees in the Far East 1942-5
    Images of Women in Peace and War
    eds. Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden and Shirley Ardener
    London: Macmillan, 1987. 166-178
  • Buber-Neumann, Margarete
    Milena: the story of a remarkable friendship
    New York: Schocken Books : Distributed by Pantheon Books, 1989
  • Caminada, Jerome
    My Purpose Holds
    London: Jonathan Cape, 1952
  • Carrigan, Minnie Buce
    Captured by the Indians: Reminiscences of Pioneer Life in Minnesota
    Forest City, SD: np, 1907
  • Conrey, Kristin
    Remembering the Forgotten: A Look at the Women POWS of World War II
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Special Issue: Women Prisoners Of War) 16.3&4 (1998): 25-75
  • Crouter, Natalie and Lynn Z. Bloom
    Forbidden diary: a record of wartime internment, 1941-1945
    American women’s diary series. New York: B. Franklin, 1980
  • Danner, Dorothy S.
    What A Way To Spend A War: Navy Nurse POWs in the Philippines
    Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1995
  • Delaney, Matilda.
    A Survivor’s Recollections of the Whitman Massacre
    Spokane, WA: np, 1920
  • Fuller, Emeline L.
    Left By the Indians: The Story of My Life
    Mt. Vernon, IA: np, 1892
  • Hanson, Elizabeth
    God’s Mercy Surmounting Man’s Cruelty Exemplified in the Captivity of Elizabeth Hanson
    Philadelphia: np, 1728
  • Herrera-Graf, Mercedes
    Stress, Suffering, and Sacrifice: Women POWS In The Civil War
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Special Issue: Women Prisoners Of War) 16.3&4 (1998): 1-24
  • Imparato, Edward T.
    Rescue from Shangri-La
    Paducah, KY: Turner Pub., 1997
  • Jeffrey, Betty
    White coolies
    Sydney,: Angus and Robertson, 1954
  • Johnson, Stephen P.L.
    A Kriegie’s Log

    Tunbridge Wells: Parapress, 1995
  • Larimer, Sarah L. (Mrs)
    The Capture and Escape; or, Life Among the Sioux
    Philadelphia: Claxton Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870
  • Macdonald, Sharon, Pat Holden, and Shirley Ardener
    Images of Women in Peace and War
    London: Macmillan, 1987
  • Meeker, Josephine
    The Ute Massacre! Brave Miss Meeker’s Captivity! Her Own Account of It, Also the Narratives of Her Mother and Mrs. Price
    Philadelphia: np, 1879
  • Monahan, Evelyn and Rosemary L. Neidel
    All this hell : U.S. nurses imprisoned by the Japanese
    Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, 2000
  • Murphy, Frances
    Desert, bamboo, and barbed wire: the 1939-45 story of a special detachment of Australian Army Nursing Sisters, fondly known as the “Angels in Grey”, and their fate in war and captivity
    Hornsby, N.S.W.: Ollif, 1983
  • Pomykalski, Wanda E.
    Prisoner Of The Soviets
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military (Special Issue: Women Prisoners Of War) 16.3&4 (1998): 76-92
  • Sams, Margaret and Lynn Z. Bloom
    Forbidden family: a wartime memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945
    Wisconsin studies in American autobiography
    Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989
  • Samuelson, Nancy B.
    The Fate Worse than Death: Women Captives of the Indian Wars
    Minerva: Quarterly Report on Women and the Military 3.4 (1985): 117-137
  • Sandbach, Betsy and Geraldine Edge
    Prison life on a Pacific raider; the adventures of Betsy Sandbach and Geraldine Edge, nurse escorts to the first five hundred children evacuated to Australia
    London,: Hodder and Stoughton limited, 1941
  • Schwinn, Monika and Bernhard Diehl
    We Came to Help
    Trans. Heurck, translated from the German by Jan van. 1st ed.
    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976
  • Simons, Jessie Elizabeth
    In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses as POWS
    Melbourne: W. Heinemann, 1985
  • Smith, Mary
    An Affecting Narrative of the Captivity and Suffering of Mrs. Mary Smith
    Providence, RI: np, 1815
  • Solzhenitsyn, Alexander
    Gulag Archipelago
    . Vol. 3
    New York: Harper & Row, 1976
  • Tarble, Helen Mar
    The Story of My Capture and Escape During the Minnesota Indian Massacre of 1862
    St. Paul, MN: np, 1904
  • Vaughan, Elizabeth
    The Ordeal of Elizabeth Vaughan: a Wartime Diary of the Philippines
    Trans. Petillo, ed. by Carol M.
    Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985
  • Vitzhum, Hilda
    Torn Out by the Roots: The Recollections of a Former Communist
    Trans. Schach, Paul
    University of Nebraska Press, 1993
  • Warner, Lavinia and John Sandilands
    Women Beyond the Wire: a story of prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-1945
    London: Joseph, 1982
  • Webb, Kate
    On the Other Side; 23 Days with the Viet Cong
    New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972
  • Williamson, Len
    Six Wasted Years

    Braunton: Merlin Books, 1988

Vietnam

Most Recommended:

  • Duiker, William J.
    Vietnam: War of Insurgency
    Female Soldiers – Combatants or Noncombatants?: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
    Ed. Goldman, Nancy Loring
    Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982. 107-122
  • Dunn, Joe P.
    Women and the Vietnam War: A Bibliographic Review
    Journal of American Culture 12. (1989): 79-86
  • Saywell, Shelley
    Women in War
    Markham, Ont: Viking, 1985
  • Taylor, Sandra C.
    Vietnamese Women at War: Fighting for Ho Chi Minh and the Revolution
    University Press of Kansas, 1998
  • Tétreault, Mary Ann
    Women and Revolution in Africa, Asia, and the New World
    Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1994
  • Turner, Karen G. and Thanh Hao Phan
    Even the Women Must Fight: memories of war from North Vietnam
    New York: Wiley, 1998

Additional:

  • Berman, Arlene Eisen
    Women of Vietnam
    San Francisco: People’s Press, 1974
  • Hayton-Keeva, Sally
    Valiant Women in War and Exile: Thirty-Eight True Stories
    San Francisco: City Lights, 1987
  • Koontz, Dean
    “Chase.” Strange Highways
    New York: Warner, 1995. 430-551
  • Nguyen Thi Dinh
    No Other Road to Take: Memoir of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh
    Trans. Elliott, Mai
    Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1976
  • Robertssen, Lowell
    Remembering the Women of the Vietnam War

    Tessera, 1990
  • Shell, Cheryl
    Making Sense of Vietnam and Telling the Real Story: Military Women in the Combat Zone
    Vietnam Generation 1.3-4 (1989)
  • Taylor, Keith
    The Birth of Vietnam
    Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983
  • Tétreault, Mary Ann
    Women and Revolution in Vietnam
    Vietnam’s Women in Transition
    Ed. Barry, Kathleen
    New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1990. 38-53
  • Turley, William S.
    Women in the Communist Revolution in Vietnam
    Asian Survey (1972)
  • Webb, Kate
    On the Other Side; 23 Days with the Viet Cong
    New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972