"The epic story of William Ash and the escape from Stalag Luft III German POW camp during World War II"--

The Valachi papers: Former mob "button man" Joe Valachi turns informant when he learns top Mafia capo Vito Genovese has put a contract out on his life. From thievery add extortion to vengeance and murder, Valachi spills the innermost workings of the Cosa Nostra, culminating in his riveting testimony before a Senate subcommittee. The stone killer: Crime drama about a tough New York cop who discovers that a prohibition gangster is planning a massacre...

"Once a Hussar is a vivid account of the wartime experiences of Ray Ellis, a gunner who in later life recorded this well-written, candid, and perceptive memoir of the conflict he knew as a young man seventy years ago. As an impressionable teenager, filled with national pride, he was eager to join the army and fight for his country. He enlisted in the South Notts Hussars at the beginning of World War II and started a journey that would take him through...

Two convicts break out of Mississippi State Penitentiary in 1936 to join a third on a long spree of bank robbing. The youngest of the gang falls in love with a girl he has met at their hideout. Their last robbery in Yazoo City goes bad and all three become notorious men, who are wanted by the law.

Relates the World War II escape of Major William Edwin Dyess and nine other prisoners of war from a Japanese prison in the Philippines, discusses the request of the American government that the men did not describe how they had been treated, and examines the escapees' determination to break their silence.

"A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. At age eleven, Kenan Trebincevic was a happy, karate-loving kid living with his family in the quiet Eastern European town of Brcko. Then, in the spring of 1992, war broke out and his friends, neighbors and teammates all turned on him. Pero - Kenan's beloved karate coach - showed up at his door with an AK-47, screaming: "You have one hour to...

Flyboys: The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military before the U.S. entered World War I, and became the country's first fighter pilots. Battle of Britain: In 1940, the British Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle to prevent the Luftwaffe from gaining air superiority over the English Channel as a prelude to a possible Axis invasion of the U.K. The horse soldiers: In 1863, a Union outfit...

Seven: David Mills is a detective who partners with the retiring William Somerset to track down a serial killer who uses the seven deadly sins as a motif in his murders. The Shawshank redemption: Red, a lifer who "knows how to get things" inside the bleak walls of Shawshank State Prison, finds himself drawn to new inmate Andy, a quiet banker with an indomitable will. As Andy brings hope and change to the entire prison, he turns out to be full of...

Salem's Lot: A novelist and a young horror fan attempt to save a small New England town which has been invaded by vampires. The shining: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future. Creepshow: Five shocking macabre tales told in the style of classic '50s horror comics. Stephen King's Cat's eye: A stray...