It's July 1943. Frederick Mayer, a German-born Jew is recruited to secret operations unit, the OSS. Along with 4 other German-Jews, he volunteers for behind-enemy-lines operations. All have family members in concentration camps. All want revenge.
Mayer and his comrades are dropped into the 'Alpine Redoubt' area of Austria, where Hitler plans to gather his SS units and make a desperate last stand against the Allies. This is the most heavily-policed area of the Third Reich, swarming with Gestapo. Capture means certain death; and for Fred and the other Jews, it means a horrible death. Yet under Hitler's nose this tiny army blows up trains, steals secrets and even impersonates German officers.
Eventually Mayer is captured and tortured by the Gestapo, but still he does not break. Meanwhile the Allies are approaching, sounding the end for Nazi Germany. Mayer, in his greatest act of chutzpah, convinces his tormentor, the commander of German forces in Innsbruck, to surrender his forces to him, convincing the officer that it would be better to surrender early than risk being shot defending a lost cause.
This is a great World War Two story of derring-do and revenge. And it's never before been told.
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They Dared Return
An extraordinary true story of revenge and courage in Nazi Germany
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They Dared Return
An extraordinary true story of revenge and courage in Nazi Germany
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- 1 âGet Me Out Of The Infantry!â
- 2 Country Club
- 3 The Wait
- 4 A Roll Of The Dice
- 5 Into The Cage
- 6 The Hustler
- 7 Alpenfestung
- 8 Operation Greenup
- 9 Operation Deadwood
- 10 The Jump
- 11 The Counterfeit Gambit
- 12 Ticket To Ride
- 13 The Game
- 14 In The Belly Of The Beast
- 15 The Electrician
- 16 Where There Were No Borders
- 17 Fly In The Ointment
- 18 Alpenfestung?
- 19 Captured
- 20 The Kriminalrat
- 21 Downfall
- 22 Funkspiel
- 23 General Fred Mayer
- 24 Into The Hills
- 25 The Tables Are Turned
- 26 To The End
- 27 Matullâs Plight
- 28 The Surrender Of Innsbruck
- 29 Turnabout
- 30 The Double Agent
- 31 âWho Do You Think We Are, Nazis?â
- Epilogue
- Then and Now
- Appendix A: Report on Operation Dania
- Appendix B: Debriefing Report on Operations Dillon and Dillon III
- Appendix C: Bernd Steinitz Debriefed by Dyno Lowenstein
- Appendix D: Report of Gestapo Anti-Parachute Chief in Klagenfurt
- Appendix E: The German View of the Dillon Mission
- Appendix F: Final Report on German Civilians
- Notes
- Index
- Plates
- Footnote
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