Further information - Prisoners of War

This web feature was written by Megan Hutching and Ian McGibbon and produced by the NZHistory.net.nz team.

Books

• D.O.W. Hall, Prisoners of Germany, Prisoners of Italy, Prisoners of Japan, (all 1949), Escapes (1954) - series of small booklets published by the War History Branch
• W.W. Mason, Prisoners of War (1954) detailed account – one volume of the Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War series. You can see a digitised version of this book at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre website.
• D. McGill, P.O.W.: the untold stories of New Zealanders as prisoners of war (1987) - unofficial account of prisoners’ experiences

Personal and biographical accounts

• James
  Bertram Shadow of a War (1947)
• John Broad
  Poor People, Poor Us (1945)
• James
  Caffin Partisan (1945) about John Denvir
• Ernest
  Clarke Over the Fence is Out (1965)
• George
  Clifton The Happy Hunted (1952)
• M. Elliot Vasili:
  The Lion of Crete (1987) about Dudley
  Perkins
• D. Filer
  'Prisoners of War' in Ian McGibbon (ed.), The Oxford
  Companion to New
  Zealand Military History (2000),
  pp. 430-3
• Lionel
  Hudson Rats of Rangoon
  (1987)
• Jim
  Henderson Gunner Inglorious (1945, but often reprinted)
• Malcolm
  Mason The Way Out (1946)
• F. N.
  Millar The 'Signor Kiwi' Saga (1993)
• J. Sanders
  Venturer Courageous: Group Captain Leonard Trent V.C, D.F.C. (1983)
• K.
  Sandford Mark of the Lion: The Story of Capt. Charles Upham, V.C. and
  Bar (1962)
• Arch Scott
  Dark of the Moon (1985)
• W. B.
  Thomas Dare to be Free: one of the greatest true stories of World War
  II (2001)
• Claude
  Thompson Into the Sun (1996)
• R. H.
  Thomson Captive Kiwi (1964)
• Peter
  Winter Free lodgings (1993)