U.S. Army Maj. James J. O'Donovan, of Cohoes, New York, was interred Tuesday at the San Diego cemetery, 83 years after his ...

The remains of a soldier from upstate New York who died in World War II have been identified more than 80 years after his ...

The first purpose-built prisoner-of-war camp was constructed in England in 1779. It marked the inception of facilities ...

In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia ordered that all prisoners of the 30 Years War be released “without payment of ransom and without any exception.” Exchanging prisoners was common by the time ...

Learn the story of Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, who became the highest-ranking American POW during WWII, in Jonathan Horn's newest book, "The Fate of the Generals." ...

A Ukrainian prisoner of war who was held captive in Russian jail for 1,000 days has revealed how he survived the constant hunger and endless beatings. Journalist Oleksandr Gudilin was captured ...

After the war, Mrs Bell said her father returned to Lancashire to "get on with his life, his job in the shoe industry and ...

Arthur Leggett, Western Australia's last surviving Australian Army World War II prisoner of war, has died at the age of 106. Captured at just 22 while defending the Greek island of Crete in 1941 ...

Evans was forced to work on the Thai-Burma railway in the jungle of a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II. Kurzel and Flanagan are friends from Tasmania, where they both live ...

One of the last surviving veterans of the Second World War has been sharing his experience of being held as a prisoner of war and returning to his life in Surrey. Eric Reeves, 104, joined the ...

Russia and Ukraine said Wednesday they had each swapped 175 prisoners in one of the largest exchanges since the Russian full-scale invasion started three years ago. At such a critical moment in US ...