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Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland
Cathryn J. Prince
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Description for Shot from the Sky: American POWs in Switzerland
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, 23 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DFH; 3JJH; HBJD; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Shot from the Sky is about one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: Neutral Switzerland shot down U.S. aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps, detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the war’s end. While conditions at the camps were adequate and humane for internees who obeyed their captors’ orders, the experience was very different for those who attempted to escape. They were held in special penitentiary camps in conditions as bad as those in some prisoner-of-war camps in Nazi Germany. Ironically, the Geneva Accords at the time did ... Read more
Shot from the Sky is about one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: Neutral Switzerland shot down U.S. aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps, detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the war’s end. While conditions at the camps were adequate and humane for internees who obeyed their captors’ orders, the experience was very different for those who attempted to escape. They were held in special penitentiary camps in conditions as bad as those in some prisoner-of-war camps in Nazi Germany. Ironically, the Geneva Accords at the time did ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
453g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Annopolis, United States
ISBN
9781612518336
SKU
V9781612518336
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About Cathryn J. Prince
Cathryn J. Prince is the author of several non-fiction books including Death in the Baltic: The WWII Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, for which she won the 2013 Military Writers Society of America’s Founders Award and A Professor, A President, and a Meteor: The Birth of American Science for which she won the Connecticut Press Club’s 2011 Book Award for ... Read more
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