Sentences with phrase «war camp»

Even though they were finally out of the water, they were placed in horrible conditions at a prisoner of war camp.

He spent time, you know, some years in Japanese prisoner of war camps in Indonesia where he was starved, and that began a kind of lifelong obsession with food, nutrition, survival and so on.

Education based upon religious convictions is accused of everything from dividing society into warring camps to indoctrinating children in a way that prevents them from achieving autonomy and critical consciousness.

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner of war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

The men's titles from 1943 - 45 were won by 6» 5 Yvon Petra, freshly released from a German prisoner of war camp where he had been held after being captured in battle while fighting in the French Army (Petra went on to win Wimbledon in 1946, becoming the last champ to take Centre Court in long trousers).

Director Angelina Jolie's Unbroken is based on Laura Hillenbrand's 2010 non-fiction account of US Olympic athlete Louie Zamperini's harrowing experience in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.

Stalag Luft III was a large prisoner - of - war camp opened in April 1942 in occupied Poland.

Zamperini, played by Jack O'Connell, was held in a prisoner of war camp by the Japanese navy for two years; prior to that he spent 47 days at sea in a raft, after a bomber he was flying in crash - landed in the Pacific.

He was active in Y.M.C.A. work; he did chaplain work for Camp Douglas, a prisoner of war camp just south of Chicago; he carried on his regular Sunday school work; and he started Sunday evening services.

Clegg adds: «My grandmother was in a prisoner - of - war camp with three small girls, all of whom were basically starving, and brought them up and protected them.

The soldiers» plight at sea and experience at a prisoner of war camp meant that Domhnall had to lose weight for the role.

The final part of the story tells of his eventual capture and subsequent days of hard physical labor and abuse in a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp run by the sadistic Mutsuhiro Watanabe (a solid debut by Japanese pop star Miyavi), aka «the Bird» (because he can see and hear everything), who makes it his mission to break the spirited Olympic champ down.

A study by Charles Morgan of Yale Medical School showed soldiers in a mock prisoner - of - war camp secreting a particular amino acid contributing to much higher cognitive functioning and better decision making.

No surprise, the Type R's styling inspires people to passionately join warring camps.

Earlier that year, the Apache chief Geronimo died in a prisoner of war camp at the age of nearly ninety.

A secondary theme is that of cowardice and shame - from the shame of an unwanted pregnancy through to the corporate shame of an entire prisoner of war camp believing themselves cowards for having been captured.

The film is based on the Laura Hillenbrand 2010 bestseller «Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption,» which chronicles the life of Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who was captured by the Japanese navy and detained at a prisoner - of - war camp after suffering a near - fatal plane crash and surviving on a raft for 47 days.

In the early 20th century, Protestants and Catholics divided into two warring camps over the issue of Irish home rule.

Day two passes old gold mine sites and the ruins of a South African War camp.

Eight miles south of Pickering, Eden Camp is an authentic World War II prisoner of war camp used to detain Italian and German soldiers captured by the Allies on the battlefields of Europe.

The museum, house in the bridge's towers, was opened in 1980, and tells the story of both the bridge's history and that of the nearby US prisoner of war camp known as the Golden Mile.

This weekend, myself and a band of brave warriors from the Invision Game Community war camp set out on an epic expedition to the NEC in Birmingham to...

Ewald remembers the story of an artist who collected soil from prisoner - of - war camps around the world and stored the bags of dirt in a warehouse.

Things have not just fallen apart, as Yeats said; they have split into warring camps.

For those who don't know, Zamperini was an Olympic runner who survived a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp in World War II.

They manage to float in a raft for 47 days before being rescued into enemy hands, and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp near Tokyo.

O'Connell plays real life survivor Lau Zamperelli, a former Olympic runner who became an Air Force pilot during WWII who was shot down and spent 40 dayson a raft at sea before being picked up by the Japanese and interred in a prisoner of war camp where he endured horrifying torture.

Austere and old - fashioned almost to a fault, «The Railway Man» offers tastefully safe treatment of a horrific subject: the torture of a British Army officer at a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II.

Harry Conklin, complex manager, said he feels trapped between warring camps — the cat feeders and the cat cursers.

For instance, Howard, the Postmaster from issue # 1, lets Jebediah know that the Sheriff he's seeking is down by Toluca Lake overseeing the conversion of the prisoner of war camp into a normal criminal prison.

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner - of - war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

Former Olympic athlete and survivor of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Louis Zamperini, is something of a household name in the US.

The latter might be the first book to read since it gives a Western view of Tibet by an Austrian who lived there after escaping from a prisoner - of - war camp in India.

Dr Caskie, who was born in Islay, was finally imprisoned by the Gestapo and sentenced to death, but the intervention of a German pastor meant the minster was instead moved to a Prisoner of War camp.

Some songs learned in Sunday school stay with people who later find the phrases availing in prisoner - of - war camps or on hospital beds.

He survived the Bataan Death March, but by the time he was liberated from a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp in 1945 his weight had fallen from 170 to 125, he was paralyzed from the waist down and was near death from malnutrition.

The battle for supremacy between the two warring camps may test the political suavity of the new governor.

The Japanese Prisoner of War camps are notorious for their cruelty.

Now, an unprecedented collaboration of archaeologists and geneticists has brought the warring camps together for the first time.

The antagonism between races and religions splits countries into warring camps; historical animosities show no signs of abating.

Both films are about young soldiers that suffer in Japanese prisoner - of - war camps in WWII, and both preach messages of forgiveness.

The runner is imprisoned on one of the Marshall Islands and eventually transferred to a prisoner - of - war camp in Tokyo.

Academy Award ® winner Angelina Jolie directs and produces Unbroken, an epic drama that follows the incredible life of Olympian and war hero Louis «Louie» Zamperini (Jack O'Connell) who, along with two other crewmen, survived in a raft for 47 days after a near - fatal plane crash in WWII - only to be caught by the Japanese Navy and sent to a prisoner - of - war camp.

The best reason to see Angelina Jolie's more - than - decent film adaptation of Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken — the story of Louis Zamperini's grueling odyssey adrift on a lifeboat in the South Pacific and in several Japanese prisoner - of - war camps — is to experience torture from the side of the tortured, to feel vicariously what it's like when an enemy has absolute power over your life and death.

Once Zamperini is taken to the prison - of - war camp, the film settles down and becomes a bit stale, only to be saved by occasional moments of greatness.

We already brought you some concept art and set photos from a «Japanese prisoner of war camp,» but now we...