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Title: The Last Escape: The Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe, 1944-1945 by Tony Rennell, John Nichol, Chris Scott ISBN: 0-670-03212-3 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 29 May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent untold story of WWII POW's
Comment: The Last Escape: the Untold Story of Allied Prisoners of War in Europe is an excellent book about a subject not many people know about. Many people know about pow's because of The Great Escape and The Bridge over the River Kwai, but this book tells a different story. Late in WWII as Germany's defeat drew nearer, problems arose for the Allied forces involving prisoners of war under German control. How to get them back? What about the Gestapo and SS? This book offers many sides of the story not often presented about the closing months of the war. The Last Escape has interviews with countless prisoners who survived the ordeal. You can read about the marches in the blizzard across Germany, US and Russian relations about the prisoners, plans from the homefront about how to handle the prisoners, and so much more. This was a very informative book that is at times very moving and at others very disturbing. The Last Escape puts you in the prison camp with the POWs making the whole thing that much more real. For a very enjoyable and informative read about the little known stories of prisoners of war in WWII, check out The Last Escape!
Rating: 5
Summary: The Tragic Story Of Allied POWs in WWII Germany
Comment: Few history books will ever have a more immediate and visceral impact on a reader; this is a chronicle of horror, bravery, hate, love and uncertainty woven into a rich tapestry of human endeavor at the absolute limit of comprehension. The authors have put stark human faces on one of the great acts of treachery and inhumanity of the Third Reich. In the brutal winter of 1944-45 the Germans began moving over 200,000 allied POWs from the advancing Russian armies toward the west, for reasons not certain even today. The particular ordeals of POWs from a selected number of the camps are described in riveting detail, with the personalities and actions of key POW participants richly revealed in often first-hand accounts and from recent interviews and testimony. It is almost unreal the depth of depravity inflicted by the Germans, particularly the SS, on these marches, some hundreds of miles long and lasting over several months. It seems incomprehensible that as a signatory to the Geneva Convention and a generally Christian nation that the Germans could be so uncaring of fellow humans; and as badly as the American and British POWs suffered, the treatment of the Russian prisoners will leave the reader profoundly disturbed. The authors follow the main characters throughout the ordeal and in many cases through the happiness and disappointments they faced after liberation. The book is carefully constructed so that as events unfold on the ground the reader is given the backdrop of actions by the governments and military hierarchies of the USA, UK, Soviet Union and Germany which help to explain the cascading events leading to the tragedy. Like a really good novel, the books gives us a look at the aftermath, when both heroes and scoundrels get what they deserve, or, all too often, what they don't deserve. Readers will find themselves cheering on the good guys and screaming invective at the bad guys and there are many of them, on both sides of the wire. This is THE book to top the "must read" list of anyone who enjoys or studies WWII history; buy it, read it and share it with friends; this is an important and largely unknown story superbly written.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good WWII history
Comment: By June 1944, there were hundreds of thousands of Allied prisoners in German POW camps, many in eastern Germany. As the war ground on, Russian forces began threatening the easternmost camps. The Germans chose to march most of those prisoners west. It was winter, and the prisoners often had to walk hundreds of miles; many weere in poor condition after nearly six years of captivity. Allied policy on POWs was in serious disarray, but there was a great concern that SS or other authorities would massacre prisoners or hold them as hostages. Drawing on first-person narratives and published works, the British authors concentrate primarily on British POWs, secondarily Americans; virtually no attention is paid to the many other Western allies held in German camps. How the end game played out, the fates of those camps overrun by the Russians, and the general muddle, terror, deprivation, and determination of individual prisoners makes a complex story, and a valuable addition to WWII literature. Recommended for military and political collections, and public libraries. Nichol is a journalist, former RAF flier who became a POW during the first Gulf war, and author of Tornado Down. Rennell is a journalist and author of Last Days of Glory.
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Title: Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland by Cathryn J. Prince ISBN: 1557504334 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: 31 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: They Can't Take That Away from Me: The Odyssey of an American Pow by Ralph M. Rentz, Peter Hrisko ISBN: 0870136720 Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany by Thomas Childers ISBN: 0805057528 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 06 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Given Up for Dead : America's Heroic Stand at Wake Island by Bill Sloan ISBN: 0553803026 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 30 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice by Alex Kershaw ISBN: 0306811677 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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