Sentences with phrase «army as prisoners of war»

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She was captured by the Confederate army and kept as a prisoner of war.

I obviously do not wish to belittle the significance of the deaths of people in the other groups - ethnic Poles, Slovenians, Homosexuals, left - wing political activists, disabled people, Roma, and arguably also prisoners of war from the USSR (my own grandfather was both a Jew and a soldier in the Red Army); and it's important to mention them as well.

My uncle was drafted into the army right out of school, and when I was born, he had just returned from the Soviet Union after 10 years as a prisoner of war.

Based on his best - selling memoir, The Railway Man tells the extraordinary and epic true story of Eric Lomax, a British Army officer who is tormented as a prisoner of war at a Japanese labour camp during World War war at a Japanese labour camp during World War War II.

The scored, scraped and blemished metal itself becomes a body of gashes and scars, hinting at Burri's original medical vocation as a military surgeon in the Italian army, first in the mid-1930s and later in the Second World War, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five yeaWar, where he was captured and interned as a prisoner of war in Hereford, Texas for five yeawar in Hereford, Texas for five years.

I drove back to my office with visions of the climactic scene from «The Bridge Over the River Kwai,» the scene where after British prisoners of war sweat blood, toil, tears and sweat to build a bridge for the Japanese army, American commandoes blow it up as the first train is crossing.