Karl Williams was on holiday in Dubai with two English friends, when they were accused of drug dealing, arrested and tortured by police. They were innocent, but the authorities didn't care. And so began their year-long nightmare as they were locked up in Port Rashid where prisoners of all nationalities were crammed into stinking cells, violence could erupt in seconds, and control of the jail was in the hands of a few powerful inmates. Karl was a survivor...

Anthony Ray Hinton was poor and black when he was convicted of two murders he hadn't committed. For the next three decades he was trapped in solitary confinement in a tiny cell on death row, having to watch as - one by one - his fellow prisoners were taken past him to the execution room. Eventually his case was taken up by the award-winning lawyer, Bryan Stevenson, who managed to have him exonerated, though it took 15 years for this to happen. Since...

In 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', Oscar Wilde provides a poetic account of his imprisonment following his sensational trial for homosexual offences.

Businessman Stephen Purvis knew that an arrest was coming, but he and his family - a wife and 4 children - decided to stay in Cuba. Despite living there for 12 years he had a naive sense of fair play. Stephen is arrested for the vague crime of passing state secrets. Quite what secrets and to whom is not clear. He is initially taken to Villa Marista, where he is interrogated at random intervals by the zealous Atencio. Stephen shares a tiny cell with...

Powerfully detailing the way prisoners are treated on a daily basis, this book tells a tale that will change the perception of Alan Lord: convicted murderer and riot leader, unflagging rights campaigner and humanitarian.

In 'The Life Inside', Andy West gives readers a unique look inside Britain's prisons today, tells his unusual family story and offers a compelling exploration of some of life's most fascinating questions.

As a young man Stuart Young endured the horrors of the Japanese prisoner-of-war camps and survived. Later in life, in graphic detail, he recorded the experience - the dreadful conditions, the brutal treatment, the sickness and starvation, the merciless routine of forced labour. Yet he also recorded the comradeship among the prisoners, their compassion and strength, and the pastimes and entertainments that helped them to come through an ordeal that...

Not only the story of a woman intimately connected to Iraq's cultured, ancient history, this title also offers a powerful witness to the terror and horror wrought by Saddam on the lives and souls of its ordinary citizens.

Michael Krupa was born into a poor family in south-west Poland and was accepted into a Jesuit seminary. He ran away before taking his final vows and joined the army. Krupa survived Hitler's invasion but served ten years in a labour camp before escaping to Afghanistan after an epic journey. Here he tells his remarkable story.

In this book, Stephen McGinty uses new documentation, contemporaneous reports, diaries, letters and memos to piece together a riveting account of the claustrophobia, paranoia and high-stakes gamesmanship that was played out in an English country house where Rudolf Hess was held prisoner for thirteen months.