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Americans Behind the Barbed Wire: World War II--Inside a German POW Camp
Americans Behind the Barbed Wire World War IIInside a German POW Camp
Author: J. Frank Diggs, J. Diggs
They went from being soldiers fighting on the front line to being prisoners of war-"kriegies"-fighting for survival. Imprisoned behind the barbed wire of a German POW camp, their enemies were hunger, cold, and boredom. This is the uplifting story of endurance, sacrifice, and courage that never made the headlines, but was just as real as the grea...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780743474825
ISBN-10: 0743474821
Publication Date: 8/26/2003
Pages: 192
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Publisher: I Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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A very interesting read from one who experienced it. Written in a rather taciturn fasion, there is as much behind the words as in them. Quite an interesting section on how the YMCA workers faced danger to help POWs.
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This is the memoir of an American officer who was captured during the Invasion of Sicily in 1943 (as my own dad was). It tells just what it was like to be a POW of the Germans. The author ended up in a POW camp in Poland, then at the war's end, in Russia. If you like true narratives of WWII, don't miss this one. (My dad escaped, declining to be a guest of the German govt., and walked/fought his way across Italy to Switzerland. Glad he didn't have to go through what this man did for the next two years!)
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