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  Title

  The last escape : the untold story of allied prisoners of war in Europe, 1944-45

  Author

  Nichol, John, 1963-  

  Publisher:

  Viking,

  Pub date:

  2003.

  Pages:

  xx, 520 p., [16] p. of plates :

  ISBN:

  0670032123

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    Type/Location	Call Number	Copies	Format
    Adult: Non-fiction	940.547243 NIC	1	Book

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  The last escape : the untold story of allied prisoners of war in Europe, 1944-45
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  Personal Author:

  Nichol, John, 1963-

  Title:

  The last escape : the untold story of allied prisoners of war in Europe, 1944-45 / John Nichol and Tony Rennell.

  Edition:

  1st American ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Viking, 2003.

  Physical description:

  xx, 520 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

  Contents:

  The Russians are coming -- Abandoned to their fate -- Out into the cold -- Fears of a massacre -- The retreat from Stalag Luft IV -- The deadly road to the west -- The rivers of humanity -- Liberated by the Red Army -- Hostages of Stalin -- Waiting for Patton -- The hell of Fallingbostel -- Death by "friendly fire" -- A German savior? -- Heading for home -- Welcome back -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1. Chronology of the end of the Second World War -- Appendix 2. The Yalta Agreement on Prisoners of War, February 1945 -- Appendix 3. The senior American officer's complaint about conditions at Stalag XIIID, Nuremberg -- Appendix 4. The numbers game.

  Subject term:

  World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.

  Subject term:

  Prisoners of war--United States--History--20th century.

  Subject term:

  Prisoners of war--Great Britain--History--20th century.

  Added author:

  Rennell, Tony.

  key:

  ocm51983253

  ISBN:

  0670032123 (acid-free paper)