Stalag Wisconsin: Inside WW II Prisoner-of-war Camps
- ISBN-10
- 187856983X
- ISBN-13
- 9781878569837
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 311
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Badger Books Inc.
- Author
- Betty Cowley
Description
Comprehensive look inside Wisconsin's 38 branch camps that held 20,000 Nazi and Japanese prisoners of war during World War II.
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