Taipivai Bay at Nuku Hiva where Herman Melville has been retained as a prisoner waiting to be decided if he should have been eaten or not The answer has been no Then he wrote Moby Dick and Taipivai Nuku Hiva Marquises islands

Christ Taken Prisoner (Detail from the Maesta Altarpiece) 1308-1311 Duccio di Buoninsegna(ca.1255-ca.1319/Italian) Tempera on Wood Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Siena, Italy

Cambodia Tuol Sleng museum and former prison and torture chambers of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh Painting by Van Nath depicting torture techniques He was a prisoner himself but survived because of his artistic skills

The National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville Georgia and USA National Veterans Cemetery and statues on site in Centeral Georgia south of Atlanta

View over a small portion of the Birkenau Death Camp giving some idea of its size with a few prisoner barracks and ruins of many more Auschwitz Poland

The National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville Georgia and USA National Veterans Cemetery and statues on site in Central Georgia south of Atlanta. USA.

Cambodia Tuol Sleng museum and former prison and torture chambers of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh Painting by Van Nath depicting torture techniques He was a prisoner himself but survived because of his artistic skills

Aurelian and Zenobia (Zenobia, Queen of Palmyra as Prisoner in Aurelian's Triumphal March, Rome 273) R. Weibezahl Archive for Art and History, Berlin, Germany

The Battle of Evesham, 4 August 1265. (c1800). Evesham marked the end of the Second Barons War. Royalist forces led by Prince Edward (Edward I) defeated Simon de Montfort (c1208-1265) who was slain in the battle. Here Henry III (1207-1272) who had been Montforts prisoner, stumbles through the battle

Cambodia Tuol Sleng museum and former prison and torture chambers of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh Painting by Van Nath depicting torture techniques He was a prisoner himself but survived because of his artistic skills

The Bear Hunt: drawing by 'Making Medicine' a Cheyenne (North American Plains Indian) prisoner at Fort Marion, Florida, August 1875. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian

Saint Louis (Louis IX of France) and his brothers Alphonse and Charles taken prisoner during the Sixth Crusade. Ransomed 1250. Woodcut of 1522

Cambodia Tuol Sleng museum and former prison and torture chambers of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh Painting by Van Nath depicting torture techniques He was a prisoner himself but survived because of his artistic skills

The National Prisoner of War Museum in Andersonville Georgia and USA National Veterans Cemetery and statues by William Thompson in Centeral Georgia south of Atlanta

Mosaic Inlay In Mother-Of-Pearl And Slate Of Soldier Leading Prisoner From Mari Syria 3RD MILLEN. BC Artist Unknown Mosaic Aleppo Museum, Aleppo, Syria

Angel Releasing St. Peter from Prison 1812 Washington Allston (1779-1843 American) Oil on canvas The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California

Cambodia Tuol Sleng museum and former prison and torture chambers of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh Painting by Van Nath depicting torture techniques He was a prisoner himself but survived because of his artistic skills

Russians taken prisoner by Germany on the Eastern front, World War I. Among them are many Cossacks in their distinctive fur hats

Cambodia Tuol Sleng museum and former prison and torture chambers of the Khmer Rouge Phnom Penh Painting by Van Nath depicting torture techniques He was a prisoner himself but survived because of his artistic skills

Transportation of convicts from Britain to Australia. Conditions were harsh. Here a prisoner who has been flogged until his back is raw is then put into a brine bath and his back is scrubbed with a brush. Engraving, c1900

The Bear Hunt: drawing by 'Making Medicine' a Cheyenne (North American Plains Indian) prisoner at Fort Marion, Florida, August 1875. National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian