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Journey Out of Darkness: The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's POW Camps: An Oral History

Journey Out of Darkness: The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's POW Camps: An Oral History

Hardcover

Series: Praeger Security International

Armed ForcesWorld War II

ISBN10: 0275997448
ISBN13: 9780275997441
Publisher: Praeger
Published: Sep 1 2007
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.84 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of 19 former prisoners of war who bravely endured captivity in Nazi Germany in World War II. Through these men, one can learn essential truths about the POW experience during that war--truths that counter many popular myths and misconceptions. The men featured here gather every week in offices of the Veterans Administration in Boston and Brockton, Mass. to talk about their experiences and find comfort in each other. In their eighties and nineties, they are unique individuals with unique wartime experiences, but also representative of the more than 120,000 American POWs held in Nazi Germany. They are men who fought a double war, in combat and then as POWs. Using both oral histories and photographs to tell their stories, LaCroix and Meyer humanize a terrifying aspect of war, redefining how we think about these men as POWs, survivors, patriots, and members of the Greatest Generation.

Journey Out of Darkness is a poignant collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of 19 former prisoners of war who bravely endured captivity in Nazi Germany during World War II. Through these men, one can learn essential truths about the POW experience during that war--truths that counter many popular myths and misconceptions.

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