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Article: Given Up for Dead: American GI's in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Article from:
- Military Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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GIVEN UP FOR DEAD: American GI's in the Nazi Concentration Camp at Berga, Flint Whitlock, Westview Press, Boulder, CO, 2005, 283 pages, $26.00.
Flint Whitlock presents a wrenching account of the treatment of American prisoners of war (POWs) during World War II using the words of the veterans who survived the ordeal. He begins the story with the POW's backgrounds--Americans from Texas to New York. These were average Americans--volunteers and draftees, fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons. Whitlock tells of the Soldiers' training and deployment to the front lines just before the Battle of the Bulge to give a sense of the Soldiers' lack of battlefield experience.
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