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Author
Series
Honor bound volume 5
Language
English
Description
August 6, 1943: In his brief career in the Office of Strategic Services, twenty-four-year-old Cletus Frade has already been involved in a lot of unusual situations, but nothing like the one he's in now, standing with a German lieutenant colonel named Wilhelm Frogger in a Mississippi prisoner-of-war detention facility. Frade's job? To help Frogger escape so the OSS can use Frogger's knowledge and connections to kill Adolf Hitler.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (243 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"We Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and supply the Norwegian resistance. But they were betrayed and the Nazis ambushed them. Only one man survived--Jan Baalsrud. This is the incredible and gripping story of his escape. Frostbitten and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping narrative, Ben Macintyre tackles one of the most famous prison stories in history and makes it utterly his own. During World War II, the German army used the towering Colditz Castle to hold the most defiant Allied prisoners. For four years, these prisoners of the castle tested its walls and its guards with ingenious escape attempts that would become legend. But as Macintyre shows, the story of Colditz was about much more than escape....
11) The Welsh girl
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
12) Dora
Author
Publisher
Holt Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
viii, 308 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
13) The great escape
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Language
English
Description
Great escape: Over six hundred Allied prisoners dug three highly sophisticated tunnels in Stalag Luft III, allowing seventy-six out of two hundred prisoners to make their escape on the night of March 24, 1944. Nazi prison escape: Details Colditz Castle, a medieval fortress used by the Nazis to house captured Allied officers who had escaped from other prisoner-of-war camps.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Threshold Editions hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
vii, 296 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Uncovers the author's father's history as a WWII prisoner-of-war, a situation he found himself in after he joined the Polish resistance against the Nazis as a teen, in a book with archival photos and pictures of artifacts.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the morning of December 16, 1944, eighteen men of the Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon attached to the 99th Infantry Division found themselves directly in the path of the main thrust of Hitler's massive Ardennes offensive. Despite being vastly outnumbered, they were told to hold their position "at all costs." Throughout the day, the platoon repulsed three large German assaults in a fierce day-long battle, killing hundreds of German soldiers....
18) German prisoners of war at Camp Cooke, California: personal accounts of fourteen soldiers, 1944-1946
Author
Publisher
Sunbury Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1943, the first great wave of Hitler's soldier's came to America, not as goose-stepping conquering heroes, but as prisoners of war. By the time World War II ended in 1945, more than six hundred German POW camps had sprung up across America holding a total of 371,683 POWs. One of these camps was established at the U.S. Army's training installation Camp Cooke on June 16, 1944. The POW base camp at Cooke operated sixteen branch camps in six of California's...
19) The nine
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 CDs (13 hrs., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The powerful, previously untold WWII story of nine female resistance fighters who banded together to survive the camps and ultimately escaped from a final death march across war-torn Germany.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A first-person account of a World War II soldier's incarceration in an infamous Nazi prison camp describes his comradeship with fellow prisoners and their efforts to dig a tunnel that would help save the lives of four fugitives.
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