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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