
Operation Swallow
American Soldiers' Remarkable Escape From Berga Concentration Camp
- 320 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- CHAPTER 1: Hold the Line!
- CHAPTER 2: Surrounded!
- CHAPTER 3: Go West!
- CHAPTER 4: The Alamo
- CHAPTER 5: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread
- CHAPTER 6: The Long March
- CHAPTER 7: Friendly Fire
- CHAPTER 8: A Christmas Story
- CHAPTER 9: Abandon Hope
- CHAPTER 10: Chief Man of Confidence
- CHAPTER 11: Herr Buchmuller Recommends
- CHAPTER 12: The Reprisal
- CHAPTER 13: Blue Sunday
- CHAPTER 14: Berga
- CHAPTER 15: The Devil’s Mountain
- CHAPTER 16: Mutiny
- CHAPTER 17: The Dogs of War
- CHAPTER 18: Breakout
- CHAPTER 19: Forgive Us Our Trespasses
- CHAPTER 20: The End of the Line
- CHAPTER 21: Deliver Us from Evil
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Index
- Plates
- About the Author
- Also by Mark Felton
- Copyright
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