Mark Felton: 16 books
Castle of the Eagles
Escape from Mussolini's Colditz
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Vincigliata Castle, a menacing medieval fortress set in the beautiful Tuscan hills, has become a very special prisoner of war camp on Benito Mussolini’s personal order. Within are some of the most senior officers of the Allied army, guarded by almost two hundred Italian soldiers and a vicious fascist...
by Mark Felton
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
A thrilling, moment by moment account of an epic World War II escape and the real-life adventures that followed.
On August 30, 1942 - 'Zero Night' - 40 Allied officers staged the most audacious mass escape of World War II. Months of meticulous planning and secret training hung in the balance...
Children of the Camps
Japan's Last Forgotten Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
The author of *Guarding Hitler*tells the truly heart-rending stories of Caucasian and Eurasian children held captive inside Japanese internment camps.
The Japanese treatment of Allied children was as harsh and murderous as that of their parents and military POWs, but this whole episode has been...
Ghost Riders
When US and German Soldiers Fought Together to Save the World's Most Beautiful Horses in the Last Days of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
It is April 1945 and the world's most prized horses are about to be slaughtered...
As the Red Army closes in on the Third Reich, a German colonel sends an American intelligence officer an unusual report about a POW camp soon to be overrun by the Soviets. Locked up, the report says, are over...
Today Is a Good Day to Fight
The Indian Wars and the Conquest of the West
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Blood, guts, dust, and hatred—this is the real history of the American West, from the initial penetration of the region by settlers and prospectors in the 1840s through the end of the Indian Wars in the 1890s. It explains the history of white-Indian conflict from the military point of view, showing...
The Real Tenko
Extraordinary True Stories of Women Prisoners of the Japanese
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The author of Children of the Camps delves into the harrowing true stories behind the TV drama: the fate of women held in Japanese captivity during WWII.
This book details the treatment of Allied servicewomen, female civilians, and local women by the Japanese occupation forces, including the...
Reading, Thinking, and Writing About History
Teaching Argument Writing to Diverse Learners in the Common Core Classroom, Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although the Common Core and C3 Framework highlight literacy and inquiry as central goals for social studies, they do not offer guidelines, assessments, or curriculum resources. This practical guide presents six research-tested historical investigations along with all corresponding teaching materials...
by Mark Felton
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2007
Ironically while the Japanese Navy followed many of the Royal Navy's traditions and structures, it had a totally different approach to the treatment of its foes. The author has uncovered a plethora of outrages against both servicemen and civilians which make chilling and shocking reading. These range...
Guarding Hitler
The Secret World of the Führer
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
“A hive of interesting facts and almost unbelievable stories about Adolf Hitler . . . Well worth a look. Well worth a read.” —War History Online
Based on intelligence documents, personal testimonies, memoirs, and official histories, including material only declassified in 2010, Guarding...
China Station
The British Militry in the Middle Kingdom 1839-1997
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries.
He devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated...
Operation Swallow
American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
The true and heroic story of American POWs' daring escape from a Nazi concentration camp.
In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp. Their story begins in...
Japan's Gestapo
Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
This disturbing book reveals the extent of the truly shocking activities of the Kempeitai, Japans feared military and secret police. The book opens by explaining the origins, organization and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire....
Never Surrender
Dramatic Escapes from Japanese Prison Camps
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
While there have been many fine books covering the appalling experiences and great courage of the many thousands of POWscaptured by the victorious Japanese during late 1941 and early 1942, escape accounts are much rarer. This is due in large part tothe fact that only a comparatively small number of...
The Final Betrayal
MacArthur and the Tragedy of Japanese POW's
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
This book examines the period between the unconditional surrender of Japan on 14 August 1945 and the arrival of Allied liberation forces in Japanese-occupied territories after 2 September 1945. The delay handed the Japanese a golden opportunity to set their house in order before Allied war crimes...
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