Product Description: MORE THAN HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD! The classic adventure story that inspired the new major motion picture The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir *** “I hope The Long Walk will remain as a memorial to all those who live and die for freedom, and for all those who for many reasons could not speak for themselves...read more

Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. Read by Bernard Mayes. Book available.

Product Description: In September 1939, as a 10 year-old boy, Michal Giedroyc watched the Russian security police seize his home in Eastern Poland. His father, a senator and judge, was imprisoned while his mother, with Michal and his two sisters, were left on the streets of the local town to fend for themselves...read more

Product Description: On April 18, 1942, 16 B-25 Bombers took off from the Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet. They bombed Tokyo and four other cities in Japan. This was the famous Doolittle Raid, a turning point in World War II. One crew landed in the Soviet Union and were held prisoner there until they escaped...read more

Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. Read by Bernard Mayes. Book available.

Chronicles the author's dramatic search into her father's secret life during and after the Second World War, recounting her discovery of his flight from the Nazis, imprisonment by the Russians, service with Polish forces, daring escape, and work as a Russian message decoder for Allied forces. Reprint.

A compelling study of one man's struggle to triumph against impossible odds chronicles the story of Clemens Forell, a German soldier who, in the aftermath of World War II, was sentenced to twenty-five years of forced labor at a Siberian lead mine, the hardships he endured, his daring escape, and his three year trek to freedom. Reprint.

Product Description: ALEKSANDER TOPOLSKI was sixteen years old on the morning of August 24, 1939, when he was called up for military service. In eight days his native Poland would be invaded by the Germans. Shortly after that, the Russians rolled in under the Hitler-Stalin pact, and when Topolski tried to sneak across the border into Romania, he was captured by Soviet border guards...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: When Poland was invaded in September 1939, young Wanda Pomykalski's life changed irreversibly. She and two friends set out to join the Polish army and were captured by Soviet soldiers. After a harrowing three week winter journey sixty people crammed into each boxcar without heat, blankets, or toilets, and with extremely little water and bread they arrived in Odessa where they were incarcerated in a massive prison...read more

Product Description: He Leadeth Me is the deeply moving personal story of one man's spiritual odyssey and the unflagging faith which enabled him to survive the horrendous ordeal that wrenched his body and spirit to near collapse.Captured by the Russian army during World War II and convicted of being a "Vatican spy," American Jesuit Father Walter J...read more