Barbed-Wire Gardens

Allied Prisoners of War and Civilian Internees in Europe and Asia in the World Wars

  • Cogan, Francis B. Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2000
  • Cohen, Israel. The Ruhleben Prison Camp: A Record of Nineteen Months’ Internment. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1917.
  • Dennett, Carl P. Prisoners of the Great War: Authoritative Statement of Conditions in the Prison Camps of Germany. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.
  • Foy, David A. For You the War Is Over: American Prisoners of War in Nazi Germany. New York: Stein & Day, 1984.
  • Gittins, Jean. Stanley: Behind Barbed Wire. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Univ. Press, 1982.
  • Guareschi, Giovanni. My Secret Diary, 1943-1945. Translated by Frances Frenaye. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1958.
  • Hartendorp, A. V. H. The Santo Tomas Story. New York: McGraw Hill, 1964.
  • Havers, R. P. W. Reassessing the Japanese Prisoner of War Experience: The Changi POW camp, Singapore, 1942-45. London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Hoffman, Conrad. In the Prison Camps of Germany: A Narrative of “Y” Service among Prisoners of War. New York: Association Press, 1920.
  • Johansen, Bruce E. So Far from Home: Manila’s Santo Tomas Internment Camp, 1942-1945. Omaha: PBI Press, 1996.
  • Keith, Agnes Newton. Three Came Home. New York: Time, 1965 [1946].
  • Ketchum, J. Davidson. Ruhleben, a Prison Camp Society. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1965.
  • Moynihan, Michael, ed. Black Bread and Barbed Wire: Prisoners in the First World War. London: Leo Cooper, 1978.
  • Nova, Lily, and Iven Lourie, eds. Interrupted Lives: Four Women’s Stories of Internment during World War II in the Philippines. Nevada City, Calif.: Artemis Books, 1995.
  • Vaughan, Elizabeth Head. Community under Stress: An Internment Camp Culture. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 1949.
  • Vischer, A. L. Barbed Wire Disease: A Psychological Study of the Prisoner of War. London: John Bales, Sons & Danielson, 1919.
  • Westheimer, David. Sitting It Out: A World War II POW Memoir. Houston: Rice Univ. Press, 1992