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Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano, With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon
Steve Carano, John C. Bitzer, Bill Blackmon
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Description for Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano, With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon
Hardcover. Presents the stories of three American POWs - Carano; his buddy Bill Blackmon, and John C Bitzer, who survived the brutal 'Death March' from northern Germany to liberation in April 1945. This book records air battles and escape attempts. Editor(s): Sloan, Kay. Num Pages: 152 pages, 26 photographs, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; BGA; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 463.
This book discusses about inside the infamous Stalag 17. On a cold December day in 1943, Claudio 'Steve' Carano's B-17 bomber was shot down over the Dutch coast on the return flight to England. Thus marked the beginning of his eighteen-month incarceration in Stalag 17 b, the camp made famous in the Billy Wilder film and in the televison show Hogan's Heroes. During his confinement, Carano secretly kept a journal in his Red Cross blank book, filling it with meticulously penned entries and illustrations. It takes the reader deep behind the notorious wire fence surrounding the prison and into the ... Read more
This book discusses about inside the infamous Stalag 17. On a cold December day in 1943, Claudio 'Steve' Carano's B-17 bomber was shot down over the Dutch coast on the return flight to England. Thus marked the beginning of his eighteen-month incarceration in Stalag 17 b, the camp made famous in the Billy Wilder film and in the televison show Hogan's Heroes. During his confinement, Carano secretly kept a journal in his Red Cross blank book, filling it with meticulously penned entries and illustrations. It takes the reader deep behind the notorious wire fence surrounding the prison and into the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288844
SKU
V9781557288844
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99-15
About Steve Carano, John C. Bitzer, Bill Blackmon
Kay Sloan is a novelist and poet and professor of English at Miami University in Ohio. Among her books are The Patron Saint of Red Chevys, a Barnes and Noble "Discover Great New Writers" selection, and The Birds Are On Fire, winner of the New Women's Voices Prize. Lewis H. Carlson is professor emeritus of history at Western ... Read more
Reviews for Not Without Honor: The Nazi POW Journal of Steve Carano, With Accounts by John C. Bitzer and Bill Blackmon
"Carano and his friends never succumbed to something called 'Barbed-Wire Psychosis,' when men literally turned their heads to the wall, gave up, and died. The key was not to be totally preoccupied with a single action or thought, whether it was yourself, your mother's chocolate cake, or counting the barbs on the wire.... These narratives are moving testimonies to human ... Read more