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My private war : liberated body, captive mind : a World War II POW's journey / Norman Bussel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Pegasus Books : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2008.Edition: 1st Pegasus Books edDescription: x, 310 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1605980153 (hbk.)
  • 9781605980157 (hbk.)
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 940.5472 B981 Available 33111005530932
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1944: Norm Bussel, an introspective and happy-go-lucky teen from Memphis, finds himself bailing out of a burning B-17 bomber just months after his 19th birthday. Touching-down in a field outside Berlin, Norm was immediately seized by local farmhands, who were in the process of lynching him when a passing German soldier put a stop to the execution. For the next year, Norm would struggle to survive at the hands of the Nazis as a prisoner of war.And that is when the rage began. Rage that he and his fellow captives were cold and starving, their wounds and illnesses left untreated. Rage that men were shot without warning. The rage and emotional turmoil he suffered during that year of hell would follow him home, denying him the peace and stability he and his loved ones longed for. This is one soldier's searing and honest story of his battle with post-traumatic stress disorder. A battle that speaks to the hearts and minds of veterans of all wars who find themselves with liberated bodies but captive minds.

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