Sentences with phrase «as a prisoner of war»

Nonetheless, given the reality of large - scale war, such citizens could be held as prisoners of war under military authority.

The lecture was given in two halves, the first describing his personal journey following his captivity as a prisoner of war in Scotland, the second explicitly addressing the title of the talk.

After serving as a doctor in Russia, he was captured by British soldiers in Belgium and held as a prisoner of war for a year in England before being released and returned to Germany in 1946.

It was one more reminder of how tough the guy — who survived years in captivity as a prisoner of war and an earlier bout with melanoma — truly is.

Thereby forcing them to a stamped mass exodus retreat to the Tyne Side, with the Gunners having already captured 5 top military brass of the Toon Army as prisoners of war to be taken to the Emirates stadium as exhibitions for the Arsenal Gooners to behold.

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

Trump expressed no remorse for saying last summer that Sen. John McCain was «not a war hero,» despite being captured in Vietnam and tortured as a prisoner of war.

«It stuns the kids to hear the guys talk about how they would gladly serve as prisoners of war again if it meant that the United States would remain free,» said Ratzel.

Remarkably, the early part of Geoff's life as a prisoner of war (POW) is the story of a brazen escape.

Americans are understandably in awe of the fortitude with which he endured unspeakable conditions as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Later one of the German players, Center Half Guenther Baumann, a tall, spare man of 34 with high cheekbones and high forehead, called upon his English learned as a prisoner of war and spoke of various soccer techniques.

But after surrendering they have rights as prisoners of war.

Clegg will talk about a mother who spent «much of her childhood as a prisoner of war», and a grandmother who «lost everything in the Russian revolution.»

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.

The Hỏa Lò Prison, also known as the Hanoi Hilton, where several Americans (including John McCain) were held as prisoners of war during the Vietnam War, as well as the Hanoi Opera House.

Synopsis: Angelina Jolie directs this true life tale of Louis Zamperini, the Olympic track star who survived a plane crash in World War II, only to fight for his life against nature and eventually 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 II.

Taking on the role of Vietnam vet Dieter Dengler, the downed Navy pilot Herzog first chronicled in his 1997 documentary «Little Dieter Needs to Fly,» Bale suffered for his art, conveying the hardships Dengler endured as a prisoner of war.

Harrer and his group fail the climb, turn back, and are promptly arrested as prisoners of war.

Playing a frequent - flyer junkie in «Up in the Air,» Clooney had a nomination for best dramatic actor, along with Jeff Bridges as a boozy country singer in «Crazy Heart,» Colin Firth as a grieving gay academic in «A Single Man,» Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in «Invictus» and Tobey Maguire as a prisoner of war in «Brothers.»

Rancor erupts on the boat, with some of the survivors wanting to take out the Nazi bastard while the more pacifist of the group would rather keep him on board to hand him over as a prisoner of war.

Angelina Jolie's Unbroken tells the story of Olympic long - distance runner and Air Force bombardier Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O'Connell), and his struggles to survive as a prisoner of war of the Japanese before the end of the war.

Racial identity is as much at the core of Obama's political being as prisoner of war is John McCain's trademark.

Hundreds more were detained as prisoners of war, and over 730 U.S. merchant ships were sunk or damaged.

In 1917, he and his wife were sent to a French internment camp as prisoners of war.

At the Alamo, he finds that the debate is not resolved over whether Crockett was executed as a prisoner of war or went down, guns blazing, with bodies at his feet.

And Hollywood is trying to capture your reader's attention as a prisoner of war.

«And it's wild to think about the Russians and Germans in Finland and with Finnish nationals as prisoners of war.

During his service Jack was captured twice and is the only dog to ever have been recorded and being traded as a prisoner of war.

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 years.

John McCain had similar memories of his two years of solitary confinement as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

Avery was captured and held as a prisoner of war for two years near Auschwitz III, a concentration camp.

According to his wife, Rose, after his experience as a prisoner of war, Roy could never get warm or endure farm work.

Thereby forcing them to a stamped mass exodus retreat to the Tyne Side, with the Gunners ofcourse having already captured 5 top military brass of the Toon Army as prisoners of war to be taken to the Emirates stadium as exhibitions for the Arsenal Gooners to behold.

Many local islanders either fled or were evacuated prior to the Japanese invasion on 31 March 1942, though those who remained were captured and kept as Prisoners of War.

The movie, based on Laura Hillenbrand's best - selling biography, stars Jack O'Connell as Louis Zamperini, the Olympic runner - turned - airman who was captured and tortured as a prisoner of war.

Zamperini served as a Prisoner of War, where he was subjected to immense physical and psychological torture, until the war finally ended.

Avery was captured and held as a prisoner of war for two years near Auschwitz III, a... (more)

As a Prisoner of War in Vietnam, then - Lt.

They even refused to kill their enemies and take them as prisoners of war.

But he deserted at the end of the war before being locked up as a prisoner of war.

Justice O'Connor cited it in the plurality opinion in Hamdi et al. v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 519 (2004), for the proposition that that «captured rebels» would be treated «as prisoners of war».

The second section required that lists of all persons, being citizens of states in which the administration of the laws had continued unimpaired in the Federal courts, who were then held or might thereafter be held as prisoners of the United States, under the authority of the President, otherwise than as prisoners of war, should be furnished to the judges of the Circuit and District Courts.

The second section required that lists of all persons, being citizens of States in which the administration of the laws had continued unimpaired in the Federal courts, who were then held, or might thereafter be held, as prisoners of the United States, under the authority of the President, otherwise than as prisoners of war, should be furnished by the Secretary of State and Secretary of War to the judges of the Circuit and District Courts.