The great desert escape : how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history /
Lloyd, Keith Warren,
The great desert escape : how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history / Keith Warren Lloyd. - viii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
Preface: Papago Park -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Die U-Bootwaffe -- Death of a submarine -- Post Office Box 1142 -- Execution -- Prisoners of war in America -- The land of milk and honey -- Eighty cents a day -- Run for the border -- Kapitän zur See -- Out of luck -- Inside Compound 1A -- Digging a tunnel -- The three crazy boatmen -- Sowing chaos -- Memorandum #46 -- Don't fence me in -- The devil must be loose -- Christmas Day 1944 -- Why on earth? -- Fantastic and highly improbable -- Living like Indians -- Jumping cactus -- Let the kid win -- A hell of a state of affairs -- Dereliction of duty -- Big shot -- Punishment -- Sore and disgusted -- Renewing in friendship.
"Dramatic and exciting account of how twenty-five determined German U-Boat crewmen tunneled from American POW camp, crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert, and attempted to return battle. It was the only organized, large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in U.S. history"--
9781493038909 1493038907
2018053653
GBB976646 bnb
019382004 Uk
Camp Papago Park (Ariz.)--History.
Prisoner-of-war escapes--History--Arizona--20th century.
Tunnels--History--Arizona--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--Germany--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--United States--20th century.
The great desert escape : how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history / Keith Warren Lloyd. - viii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index.
Preface: Papago Park -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Die U-Bootwaffe -- Death of a submarine -- Post Office Box 1142 -- Execution -- Prisoners of war in America -- The land of milk and honey -- Eighty cents a day -- Run for the border -- Kapitän zur See -- Out of luck -- Inside Compound 1A -- Digging a tunnel -- The three crazy boatmen -- Sowing chaos -- Memorandum #46 -- Don't fence me in -- The devil must be loose -- Christmas Day 1944 -- Why on earth? -- Fantastic and highly improbable -- Living like Indians -- Jumping cactus -- Let the kid win -- A hell of a state of affairs -- Dereliction of duty -- Big shot -- Punishment -- Sore and disgusted -- Renewing in friendship.
"Dramatic and exciting account of how twenty-five determined German U-Boat crewmen tunneled from American POW camp, crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert, and attempted to return battle. It was the only organized, large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in U.S. history"--
9781493038909 1493038907
2018053653
GBB976646 bnb
019382004 Uk
Camp Papago Park (Ariz.)--History.
Prisoner-of-war escapes--History--Arizona--20th century.
Tunnels--History--Arizona--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--Germany--20th century.
Prisoners of war--History--United States--20th century.