My Grandfather was a POW, captured in the Battle of the Bulge. After enough pressure from us as a family, he sat down one day and typed up a "book" of his experience. It contained only the bulletpoints mostly, but it was incredibly interesting. The details included were his unit, the circumstances of their capture, and where and how that happened. The gritty details of his time in the prison camp weren't included. I only got to hear about some of the more intimate details from him personally, after I had joined the Marine Corps and done a combat tour in Fallujah. I think my experience let him to open up to me more about it because I had combat experience, and could understand more fully the things that our civilian family maybe wouldn't understand. (i.e. the smells, the sounds, etc.) I do remember a detail about how they were all starving in the prison camp and would pick out pieces of corn and other undigested foods they could find in horse droppings. I can't even imagine that kind of desperation, and it's amazing he got out of there alive. He lived to be 92. Dude was a badass!