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Operation Swallow : American soldiers' remarkable escape from Berga Concentration Camp / Mark Felton.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England : Icon Books. 2019Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 291 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781546076445
  • 1546076441
  • 9781785785771
  • 178578577X
  • 9781785785993
  • 1785785990
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 940.531743 23
LOC classification:
  • D805.5.B46 F45 2019
Summary: In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 940.5317 FEL Available T00827242
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The true and heroic story of American POWs' daring escape from a Nazi concentration camp. In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp. Their story begins in the dark forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944 and ends at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in the spring of 1945. This appalling chapter of US military history and uplifting Holocaust story deserves to be widely known and understood. Operation Swallow provides a historical, first person perspective of how American GIs stood up against their evil SS captors who were forcing them to work as slave laborers. A young GI is thrust into a leadership position and leads his fellow servicemen on a daring escape. It is a story filled with courage, sacrifice, torture, despair, and salvation. A compelling narrative-driven nonfiction book has not been written that takes the reader deep into the dark story of Operation 'Swallow' and Berga Concentration Camp--until now. Written from personal testimonies and official documents, Operation Swallow is a tale replete with high adventure, compelling characters, human drama, tragedy, and eventual salvation, from the pen of a master of the modern military narrative.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-264) and index.

In this little-known story from World War II, a group of American POW camp leaders risk everything to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a diabolical Nazi concentration camp.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Chapter 1 Hold the Line! (p. 1)
  • Chapter 2 Surrounded! (p. 16)
  • Chapter 3 Go West! (p. 30)
  • Chapter 4 The Alamo (p. 42)
  • Chapter 5 Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread (p. 53)
  • Chapter 6 The Long March (p. 66)
  • Chapter 7 Friendly Fire (p. 80)
  • Chapter 8 A Christmas Story (p. 92)
  • Chapter 9 Abandon Hope (p. 104)
  • Chapter 10 Chief Man of Confidence (p. 117)
  • Chapter 11 Herr Buchmuller Recommends (p. 132)
  • Chapter 12 The Reprisal (p. 144)
  • Chapter 13 Blue Sunday (p. 154)
  • Chapter 14 Berga (p. 167)
  • Chapter 15 The Devil's Mountain (p. 175)
  • Chapter 16 Mutiny (p. 187)
  • Chapter 17 The Dogs of War (p. 198)
  • Chapter 18 Breakout (p. 211)
  • Chapter 19 Forgive Us Our Trespasses (p. 223)
  • Chapter 20 The End of the Line (p. 234)
  • Chapter 21 Deliver Us from Evil (p. 245)
  • Epilogue (p. 255)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 259)
  • Bibliography (p. 261)
  • Endnotes (p. 265)
  • Index (p. 281)
  • About the Author (p. 291)

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