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# Prisoners of War
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American Tragedy: 40 Disturbing Photographs from the Battlefields of the Civil War
In today’s world of mass image collecting and “selfies,” it is hard to imagine a world in which some sort of image capturing didn’t exist. Photography wasn’t invented until the 1830s, and…
American History
The Civil War’s Deadliest POW Camp Claimed Thousands of American Lives
The American Civil War remains the bloodiest war the United States has ever fought. More than 600,000 Americans died in…
Warfare History
Monopoly and Other Games Helped Escaping Prisoners in World War II
On retro television channels featuring the hit shows of the 1960s and 70s, the World War II sitcom Hogan’s Heroes, set in…