Journey Out of Darkness
The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's Pow Camp, An Oral History
Lacroix, Hal
Meyer, Jorg (PHT)
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of 19 former prisoners of war who bravely endured captivity in Nazi Germany in World War II. Through these men, one can learn essential truths about the POW experience during that war--truths that counter many popular myths and misconceptions. The men featured here gather every week in offices of the Veterans Administration in Boston and Brockton, Mass. to talk about their experiences and find comfort in each other. In their eighties and nineties, they are unique individuals with unique wartime experiences, but also representative of the more than 120,000 American POWs held in Nazi Germany. They are men who fought a double war, in combat and then as POWs. Using both oral histories and photographs to tell their stories, LaCroix and Meyer humanize a terrifying aspect of war, redefining how we think about these men as POWs, survivors, patriots, and members of the "Greatest Generation."
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0275997448
Dewey Decimal: 940.54/7243092273
Library of Congress: 2007016135
Book Publisher: Greenwood Pub Group
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 187
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