Operation Swallow
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Operation Swallow

American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 7 Mar |Learn more

Operation Swallow

American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp

About this book

Operation Swallow is the true story of how a small group of American soldiers, inspired by a charismatic but reluctant leader named Hans Kasten, worked to save hundreds of fellow servicemen from a Nazi plan to turn Jewish prisoners of war into concentration camp slaves.
It begins in the snowy forests of the Ardennes during Christmas 1944 and ends at the charnel house of Buchenwald concentration camp in spring 1945. It is a remarkable battle of wills between a young GI thrust into a leadership position he didn't want and an SS officer who will stop at nothing to complete his orders.
Written from personal testimonies and official documents, it is an escape story replete with courage, sacrifice, torture, despair and salvation. Even more remarkably, it is a story that has barely been told before, a chapter of US military history that the American government tried to suppress for decades - and an uplifting story that deserves to be widely known.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. CHAPTER 1: Hold the Line!
  6. CHAPTER 2: Surrounded!
  7. CHAPTER 3: Go West!
  8. CHAPTER 4: The Alamo
  9. CHAPTER 5: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
  10. CHAPTER 6: The Long March
  11. CHAPTER 7: Friendly Fire
  12. CHAPTER 8: A Christmas Story
  13. CHAPTER 9: Abandon Hope
  14. CHAPTER 10: Chief Man of Confidence
  15. CHAPTER 11: Herr Buchmuller Recommends
  16. CHAPTER 12: The Reprisal
  17. CHAPTER 13: Blue Sunday
  18. CHAPTER 14: Berga
  19. CHAPTER 15: The Devil’s Mountain
  20. CHAPTER 16: Mutiny
  21. CHAPTER 17: The Dogs of War
  22. CHAPTER 18: Breakout
  23. CHAPTER 19: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
  24. CHAPTER 20: The End of the Line
  25. CHAPTER 21: Deliver Us from Evil
  26. Epilogue
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index
  30. Plates
  31. About the Author
  32. Also by Mark Felton
  33. Copyright
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