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Prisoners: A Jewish Guard in a Nazi POW Camp. by Burl Zollo (Academy Chicago Publishers. 304 pp., $18.95) is a debut novel by this Chicago writer, originally published in 2003 and now reissued in paperback.

American Jewish soldier Stuart "Sandy" Delman is assigned as a guard at a POW compound housing Germans who know he's Jewish and take every opportunity to curse him.

Delman can't always contain his own responses, and is punished for it. Ironically, circumstances lead the young HoLdier. who had enlisted to fight Germans. to devise a plan to …