Sentences with phrase «day in a prison camp»
«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»
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He died at the age of thirty - nine, after about two years of imprisonment, just several days before his prison camp was liberated by the Allies, and less than a month before the conclusion of the war in Europe.
As if pulling a page from a well - worn cliche prison drama, Gonzalez with a laugh revealed that sometime during the course of his five years 7 months and 9 days in prison, he became supervisor of his camp's law library.
Taking its title from a hymn written by missionary Margaret Drummond (played in the film by Pauline Collins: Shirley Valentine), Paradise Road is the product of Beresford's interviews with surviving members of a Sumatran prison camp that was so remote, it took a full two weeks after VJ day for Allied forces to officially liberate them.
O'Connell stars as «the young Zamperini from the time he was a wunderkind member of the USA track team that competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to his survival of a harrowing plane crash in the Pacific Ocean during WWII through 47 days adrift in a life raft to becoming a POW in a Japanese prison camp.»
«Unbroken» tells the true story of Olympian and WWII veteran Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash that put him and two fellow soldiers adrift at sea for 47 days, and then two years in the brutal conditions of Japanese prison camps.