Italian women kept people alive long enough to keep fighting. Women served as nurses, assisted wounded partisans and sick ...

A prisoner of war camp from the Napoleonic era located in Cambridgeshire has been acquired by a trust to preserve it as a site of historical significance. Nene Park Trust has purchased Norman Cross, ...

The site of the world’s first purpose-built prisoner of war camp, which dates back to the Napoleonic wars, has been saved by Historic England funding. Now, the Napoleonic Norman Cross prison depot ...

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

What is believed to be the first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp, dating from the Napoleonic Wars, is now open to the public. The Norman Cross Camp in Yaxley, just south of Peterborough, housed ...

A group of POWs staged a sit-down strike at local processing plants. One POW, Heinz Golze, escaped from camps five times. Young women working alongside POWs were said to be "very familiar" with them.

This year marks the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and communities around the world are marking this occasion in various ways that honor the men and women who gave so much during this ...

For some people, the new year brings a resolution to refrain from drinking — if only for a month. In 2013, a British charity launched the “Dry January” campaign to raise awareness of the health and ...

"I have worked with the local Low Country AX-POW chapter members and their spouses ..."--Foreword. Collection of reminiscences relating primarily to World War II and to experiences of prisoners held ...