Captivity, flight, and survival in World War II / by Alan J. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levine, Alan J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons.

World War, 1939-1945.

Escapes--History--20th century.

Escapes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover

Captivity, Flight, and Survival in World War II

Contents

Introduction

1 Flight from the Enemy: Europe and the Mediterranean

ST. OMER TO GIBRALTAR

Organizing Escape and Evasion

Commando Escapers

ACROSS THE NORTH SEA

By Air from Denmark

FLIGHT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN

Flight from Crete

Tobruk: The Sea and the Desert

Flight with the Germans

2 Flight before the Enemy: Asia and the Pacific

BREAKOUT FROM HONG KONG

FLIGHT FROM SINGAPORE AND SUMATRA

FROM SUMATRA TO CEYLON: THE SEDERHANA DJOHANIS

FLIGHT FROM JAVA

ESCAPE ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN

Ambon

ESCAPES FROM THE PHILIPPINES

From Corregidor to Darwin: The Men of the USS Quail

Gause and Osborne

The Guerrillas and Escapes

Mission from Mindanao: The Voyage of Hamner and the Smiths

Whitehead's Escape

NINE MONTHS ON NEW BRITAIN

3 Escapes from Prisoner of War Camps in Europe

LIFE IN THE CAMPS

MORALE AND DIVISIONS AMONG PRISONERS

The Mental State of the Prisoners

THE ESCAPERS

GERMAN DEFENSES AGAINST ESCAPE

ESCAPE AIDS

TYPES OF ESCAPES

Early Escapes

TUNNEL ESCAPE

The Warburg Wire Job

ESCAPES FROM SALONIKA

PRISONERS IN ITALY

Escape by Air

EAST AND NORTH: ESCAPES VIA THE BALTIC

ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ CASTLE

STALAG LUFT III

The Wooden Horse

ESCAPE ACROSS THE EASTERN FRONT

4 Escapes from Prisoner of War Camps in Asia

THE JAPANESE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS

Survival in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps

RESISTANCE AND ESCAPE

THE LONGEST ESCAPE

CABANATUAN TO DAVAO

HONG KONG

UNWANTED ESCAPES: THE FIRST OF THE HELL SHIPS

ESCAPE TO TIBET AND BURMA

5 Escape from the Kingdom of Death: Jewish Escapes in Occupied Europe

ESCAPES FROM GHETTOES

THE CONCENTRATION CAMP WORLD

THE LIFE OF THE PRISONERS

ESCAPES FROM JEWISH PRISONER OF WAR AND LABOR CAMPS.

ESCAPE FROM LABOR CAMPS

THE EASTERN EXTERMINATION CAMPS

TREBLINKA II

SOBIBOR REVOLT AND ESCAPE

ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ

SIEGFRIED LEDERER

VRBA AND WEXLER

LATER ESCAPES FROM AUSCHWITZ

ESCAPES FROM GERMANY

ESCAPE FROM THE SONDERKOMMANDOS

Notes

Bibliography of Published Sources

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-247) and index.

ISBN:

9798400623349

9780313001413

0313001413

OCLC:

613394090