Post by connie on Jul 29, 2022 12:35:34 GMT -5
Operation Swallow: American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape from Berga Concentration Camp
I have not read this book and would welcome reviews by anyone who has.
I ran across the title while I was searching for information on one of the 106th POW's at Berga.
Skimming the initial pages of this book that were available on the Amazon site, it appears that numerous men from the 106th are a part of this account.
Summary from Good Reads:
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.
Good Reads www.goodreads.com/book/show/44287196-operation-swallow
Amazon Prime www.amazon.com/Operation-Swallow-American-Remarkable-Concentration/dp/1546076441
Amazon Books. www.amazon.com/Operation-Swallow-American-Remarkable-Concentration/dp/1549154710
FOR MORE ON BERGA see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5141/thread
I have not read this book and would welcome reviews by anyone who has.
I ran across the title while I was searching for information on one of the 106th POW's at Berga.
Skimming the initial pages of this book that were available on the Amazon site, it appears that numerous men from the 106th are a part of this account.
Summary from Good Reads:
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.
Good Reads www.goodreads.com/book/show/44287196-operation-swallow
Amazon Prime www.amazon.com/Operation-Swallow-American-Remarkable-Concentration/dp/1546076441
Amazon Books. www.amazon.com/Operation-Swallow-American-Remarkable-Concentration/dp/1549154710
FOR MORE ON BERGA see: 106thdivision.proboards.com/post/5141/thread