Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Stockade. They butchered Brahma steers, began to recover some of the strength drained out of them by almost three years of the horror which began at Bataan. But they were still sick, emaciated, unarmed-still prisoners deep within the Jap lines. Jap combat troops, moving northeast along the highway which ran past the camp, used the prison's garrison barracks for temporary quarters. Japs in force were only a mile to the south...
Stalin was spending a few years in an Arctic prison camp when the democratic Government of Alexander Kerensky liberated the Bolshevik prisoners from whom, six months later, Kerensky was fleeing for his life...
When the doors (of the ramshackle boxcars) were opened, someone, I can't remember who, said we had reached Capas, a town in Tarlac province, and that we were headed for O'Donnell prison camp-named for the town of O'Donnell. . . . A seven-mile hike to O'Donnell prison was ahead of us. . . . My first good look at O'Donnell prison was from atop a rise about a mile off. I saw a forbidding maze of tumbledown buildings, barbed wire entanglements, and high guard towers, from which flew the Jap flag. I had flown...
...brown hair, tough-looking) and Robber Edgar Cook (31, 5 ft. 4, 154 lbs., light complexion, hazel eyes, talks incessantly) were just dull names on Midwest police circulars. But in the tarnished democracy of crime a man can always emerge from mediocrity by that feat of supermechanics, a successful prison break...
...incredible guilelessness of Isaac Emmanuel's errand, and his courage and dignity before his brutal judge and torturers, serve all the more to convince the Gestapo that he has a great deal to cover up. After prison scenes which recall those of Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, the old man is released, thanks to an Anglo-Jewish cabaret star and a Nazi bigshot (Walter Rilla) who is infatuated with her. When at length old Isaac does find the boy's mother, she has married a Nazi and has so wholly betrayed all that was ever good...