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Given up for dead : American GI's in the Nazi concentration camp at Berga / Flint Whitlock.
Van Pelt Library D805.5.B46 W55 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Whitlock, Flint.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Berga (Concentration camp).
- Stalag IX B.
- World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Prisoners of war--Germany.
- Prisoners of war.
- Germany.
- Prisoners of war--United States.
- United States.
- World War, 1939-1945--Conscript labor--Germany.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives -- American.
- Personal narratives.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 283 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Westview Press, [2005]
- Summary:
- Award-winning military historian Flint Whitlock chronicles the little-known story of American GIs who were taken prisoner at the Battle of the Bulge and forced into slavery inside the Nazi concentration camp at Berga.
- Contents:
- Raw recruits
- Trial by fire
- The surprise
- Captive
- Bad times at Bad Orb
- Caught in a north wind
- Last train to Berga
- Berga
- The end of hope
- Totenmarsch
- liberation
- Aftermath.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813342880
- OCLC:
- 57575835
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