TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lloyd,Keith Warren
TI  - The great desert escape: how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history 
SN  - 9781493038909
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Guilford, Connecticut
PB  - Lyons Press
KW  - Camp Papago Park (Ariz.)
KW  - History
KW  - Prisoner-of-war escapes
KW  - Arizona
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Tunnels
KW  - Prisoners of war
KW  - Germany
KW  - United States
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -