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Article: Given Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga.
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- Infantry Magazine
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- November 1, 2006
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Given Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga. Flint Whitlock. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2005, 283 pages, $16.95.
Recent scholarship on the Second World War has focused a great deal on the actions and experiences of the common Soldier, and accounts of "The Greatest Generation" have been increasingly common. Flint Whitlock's book, Given Up For Dead: American GI's In The Nazi Concentration Camp At Berga, falls in this genre by detailing the experiences of a group of American Soldiers captured either during the early stages of the Battle of the Bulge or in the Vosges during the German Nordwindoffensive. But instead of humane treatment ...