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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Dando-Collins, Stephen.     Subjects     Oflag 64 (Concentration camp)     United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland -- Szubin.     Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Szubin -- History -- 20th century.     Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Szubin -- Biography.     Americans -- Poland -- Szubin -- Biography.     Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Dando-Collins, Stephen.       by title:      The big break : the ...       by call number:      940.547243 D177b     Search the Web     Dando-Collins, Stephen.     Oflag 64 (Concentration camp)     United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.     World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland -- Szubin.     Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Szubin -- History -- 20th century.     Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Szubin -- Biography.     Americans -- Poland -- Szubin -- Biography.     Soldiers -- United States -- Biography.       MARC Display

The big break : the greatest American WWII POW escape story never told / Stephen Dando-Collins. by Dando-Collins, Stephen. St. Martin's Press, 2017. Call #: 940.547243 D177b Subjects Oflag 64 (Concentration camp)   United States. Army -- Officers -- Biography.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.   World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Poland -- Szubin.   Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Poland -- Szubin -- History -- 20th century.   Prisoners of war -- Poland -- Szubin -- Biography.   Americans -- Poland -- Szubin -- Biography.   Soldiers -- United States -- Biography. ISBN:  9781250087560 (hc.) Alternate title:  Greatest American WWII POW escape story never told Edition:  First edition. Description:  xvii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-243)and index. Contents:  Glossary -- The First American to Escape from Schubin -- On the Loose -- The Yanks Move in -- Under, Over and Through the Wire -- Death Sentences -- The Russians Are Coming -- The Big Break, Day One -- Game On -- Meeting the Russkies -- Moscow or Bust -- The First Schubin Escapee Home Runs -- Kriegies on the Run -- The Hammelburg Schubinites -- Patton Wants them Liberated -- Fighting Through to Hammelburg -- The Battle for the Camp -- Busting Out -- One Helluva Night -- Blood and Fire on the Reussenberg -- Freedom so Close -- Liberation -- Welcome Home, Kriegie. Summary:  "Oflag 64, a World War II prisoner of war (POW) camp based in Schubin, Poland, was speculated to be one of the only POW camps set up exclusively for U.S. Army ground component officers. About 150 American officers lived in the camp in 1943, and by 1945, that number had expanded to 1,500. When the German commandant Colonel Fritz Schneider received orders to march all of his prisoners to west Germany to escape the Russians in January 1945, that number declined rapidly as the American officers put into place long-existing escape plans that would make history. In The Big Break, we follow famous POWs, such as General Eisenhower's personal aide, General Patton's son-in-law, and Ernest Hemingway's eldest son, as the first American escapes via a tunnel in a stinking latrine, with almost 250 US officers following closely behind in a mass break. The Schubin escapes are by far the largest Allied POW escape of the second World War, surpassing even The Great Escape of 1944. Historian Stephen Dando-Collins chronicles the gripping story of irrepressible Americans determined to be free, brave Poles risking their lives to help them, and dogmatic Nazis determined to stop them"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Nonfiction 940.547243 D177b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Home Delivery - HN Adult Nonfiction 940.547243 D177b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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