Captivity Flight And Survival In World War Ii
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Captivity Flight And Survival In World War Ii
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Author : Alan Levine
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-08-30
Captivity Flight And Survival In World War Ii written by Alan Levine and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-30 with History categories.
A collection of prisoner of war and concentration camp survivor stories from some of the toughest World War II camps in Europe and the Pacific, this book details the daring escapes and highlights the fundamental aspects of human nature that made such heroic efforts possible. Levine takes a comprehensive approach, including evasion efforts by those fleeing before the enemy who never reached formal prisoner of war camps, as well as escapes from ghettoes and labor camps. Levine pays particular attention to dramatic escapes by small boat. Many are not widely known, although some were made over vast distances or in fantastically difficult conditions from enemy-occupied areas. Accounts include attempts at freedom from both German and Japanese prisoner of war camps, stories that reveal much about the conditions prisoners endured. Some of these escapes are far more amazing than the famed Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. German and Austrian prisoners also recount their amazing flights from India to Tibet and Burma. This study challenges some ideas about behavior in extreme situations and casts interesting light on human nature.
Captivity Flight And Survival In World War Ii
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Author : Alan J. Levine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Captivity Flight And Survival In World War Ii written by Alan J. Levine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Escapes categories.
Freedom In Captivity
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Author : Siegfried G. Mohring
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Freedom In Captivity written by Siegfried G. Mohring and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Prisoner Of War
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Author : Fouad Sabry
language : en
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Release Date : 2024-06-03
Prisoner Of War written by Fouad Sabry and has been published by One Billion Knowledgeable this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-03 with Political Science categories.
What is Prisoner of War A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict. The earliest recorded usage of the phrase "prisoner of war" dates back to 1610. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Prisoner of war Chapter 2: Other Losses Chapter 3: End of World War II in Europe Chapter 4: Disarmed Enemy Forces Chapter 5: Prisoner-of-war camp Chapter 6: Stalag III-C Chapter 7: Stalag XX-A Chapter 8: Stalag Chapter 9: Allied war crimes during World War II Chapter 10: Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War (1929) (II) Answering the public top questions about prisoner of war. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Prisoner of War.
Flying For Freedom
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Author : Alois Siska
language : en
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Release Date : 2008-10-30
Flying For Freedom written by Alois Siska and has been published by Casemate Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-10-30 with History categories.
Alois Siska was born in Czechoslovakia and learnt to fly. He escaped to the UK after the German invasion and joined the R.A.F. He describes his experiences flying Wellington bombers. In December 1943 he was shot down and he and surviving members of the crew were adrift in the North Sea for 7 days in appalling conditions. Picked up by the Germans he underwent surgery to his badly wounded legs and became a POW. He suffered at the hands of the Gestapo and was held in numerous camps including Colditz. His injuries were so extensive that he was put under the care of Archibald McIndoe. Siska chose to return to his native country to join their air force but fell foul of the Communist authorities. His persecution is described in the closing chapters. His rank was restored only in 1991 on the collapse of the Communist regime. Despite his injuries he remained active until 2003 when he died just short of his 90th birthday. He was as an active member of the Czech Ex-R.A.F. Association, the R.A.F. Benevolent Fund in his country, and the Sue Ryder Homes for which he raised considerable funds. His death was marked with a fly-past of the Czech Air Force and he was posthumously awarded the highest military decoration—The Order of the White Lion.
Surviving Captivity
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Author : Chris McNab
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2015-02-03
Surviving Captivity written by Chris McNab and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-03 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
During a time of war, pilots face the risk of being shot down behind enemy lines and captured. For this reason, each pilot receives training to help him endure the stresses of captivity. During an interrogation, this training and the pilot's own strength and willpower are invaluable. This book discusses many of the techniques used to survive the experience of being in captivity. A captive pilot must be prepared to cope with boredom, resist interrogation, and work as a team with other prisoners. In addition, he must know how to go about escaping if he has the opportunity. Discover: • how some U.S. pilots in Vietnam coped with seven years of imprisonment. • how interrogators try to trick people into talking. • how interrogators are trained to detect lies. • survival techniques during escape. • tracking skills used by escaping pilots and the pursuing enemy.
In Captivity
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Author : Philip John Crosskey Dark
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
In Captivity written by Philip John Crosskey Dark and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Prisoners of war categories.
What I Never Told You
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Author : Candy Kyler Brown
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2010-08-23
What I Never Told You written by Candy Kyler Brown and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-23 with History categories.
In What I Never Told You: A Daughter Traces the Wartime Imprisonment of Her Father (published by AuthorHouse), Candy Kyler Brown collects and tells her father’s personal account of being a prisoner of war during World War II. Though Brown’s father, John Kyler, an Army Air Force B-17 ball turret gunner who served during World War II, died without ever setting his experiences in book form, Brown was able to piece together the events of his heroic, terrifying ordeal through the personal journals her father kept during his captivity. “I was in awe,” remembers Brown upon finding the handwritten notebooks. “It took me back in time, and I could imagine so clearly my father as a young boy and picture him, his freedom lost, sketching these pages from his “home” behind barbed wire. I thought of all the boys who were held captive by the German guards and how they must have feared that every day could be their last.” Brown’s father was shot down February 4, 1944 while on a mission to Frankfurt, Germany. As their damaged ship lost altitude over Belgium, he and the other crew members were forced to bail from their crippled bomber. On the ground, he was quickly taken prisoner. John Kyler would remain a prisoner for 15 months. While Brown was aware of her father’s heroic survival, accounts of the ordeal were not easily spoken of by her father. “It never felt comfortable to ask about that time in his life that he had put behind him,” Brown says. “I believe that men like my father – men who had witnessed so many life changing events – felt both lucky and guilty to survive when many of their comrades did not. I remember months before his death I told him he should write a book, and I would be his secretary and help him record his memories. He responded, ‘What’s there to write about?’, and that was it.” Brown’s father would pass away suddenly soon thereafter. With What I Never Told You, Brown has shared not only her father’s story, but also the countless other stories untold by soldiers who are unwilling or unable to speak of their traumatic experiences. An engrossing read, What I Never Told You tells the war stories that go missing from history books. These are personal odes, each page alive with curiosity, fear, panic, frustration and an unbreakable optimism. It’s a read not to be missed.
The War In The Air Book Two 2nd Edition Revised And Expanded
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Author : Matthew Rozell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-15
The War In The Air Book Two 2nd Edition Revised And Expanded written by Matthew Rozell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-15 with History categories.
(2ND EDITION, REVISED and EXPANDED: COMBAT, CAPTIVITY, REUNION) WHAT DO YOU FILL YOUR POCKETS WITH when you're rousted awake in the middle of a freezing German night to be death-marched across Germany?WHEN YOUR BUDDY STAGGERS AND FALLS by the side of the road, and no longer even knows who you are, do you keep moving to keep yourself alive? - "The next day we marched almost twenty hours, so now we were coming up to a town, now everybody is falling over, but I was in a group where everybody made a pledge to watch each other. I found myself off the side of the road and I lay in the snow and I said to myself, 'Wow, this is so warm.' I was so damn cold, I didn't know my name or anything, or where I lived-I was gone!" -B-24 bombardier, shot down, taken prisoner Dying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is. - "We got shot down around noontime by a Messerschmitt. I was in the top turret shooting at them, and I could see [their faces] as clearly as I'm looking at you. They wiped us out completely. I'm following him with the top turret gun and you could see bits of the plane coming off his tail section, but not enough to bother him. As I'm turning, the electrical cord on my flying suit got caught underneath the swivel of the turret. I ducked down, I untangled it... now I got back into my turret. Fellas, the turret wasn't there anymore. That son-of-a-gun who had been eyeing me came in and he hit his 20mm gun, took the top of that Plexiglas and tore it right off! The fighters made another pass. They hit a couple of our engines; they made another pass and they shot away our controls! We peeled off into one of these spirals-you've seen them on television where the plane will come over on its back and just spiral into the ground. Trees are coming up at me; I had my hand on the ripcord and out I went, headfirst." -B-17 engineer Maybe our veterans did not volunteer to tell us their stories; perhaps we were too busy with our own lives to ask. But they opened up to a younger generation, when a history teacher taught his students to engage. - "I was standing on the train in Paris right next to an SS colonel-he had a satchel handcuffed to his arm, and a guard with a Sten gun. The train started up, and the SS colonel bumped into me. And he turned around to me and said, 'Pardonne moi.' I thought, 'Oh, my God!'" -B-17 crewman/evadee, shot down on his first mission - "What made me cry was this is a guy from Texas, and even if he didn't like blacks, or he didn't like Jews, or Catholics, or whoever, no German was going to tell him what to do-no general was pushing him around! He says, 'We are Americans in this camp, and we are all the same.' They asked him for a list of all Jews, and he said, 'You're not going to get it-if you're going to shoot them, you're going to shoot us all, because we are not going to tell you which ones to pick out.' So these are the things that make me feel damn proud to be an American!" -Lead navigator, PoW
The War Behind The Wire
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Author : Patrick Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2000-09-11
The War Behind The Wire written by Patrick Wilson and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-11 with History categories.
Published to coincide with the major 2 part BBC1 series (Autumn 2000) of the same name, War Behind the Wire focuses on the capture, interrogation, the comradeship of camp life, escape planning and forgery techniques, tunnelling, the thrill of life on the run, re-capture and punishment, the joy of liberation. All these experiences and more are vividly described by former POWs of the Second World War and their German camp guards, in War Behind the Wire.Through gripping first-hand accounts enhanced with numerous illustrations, we learn the true story of the ill-fated Great Escape, which ended in the barbaric murder of 50 gallant men of many nationalities. Former inmates tell what life in Colditz Castle was really like.War Behind the Wire is an inspiring book of memories and experiences of those who never gave up hope. These will be as unforgettable for the reader as they were for those who found themselves in captivity.