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Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story

Tragedy at Graignes: The Bud Sophian Story

O'Leary, Margaret R. and Dennis S.

Paperback

Historical FiguresMilitary Biographies20th Century United States History

Publisher Price: $23.95

ISBN10: 1450283292
ISBN13: 9781450283298
Publisher: Authorhouse
Published: Feb 22 2011
Pages: 360
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Tragedy at Graignes tells the story of Captain Bud Sophian, the only US Army officer who did not flee Graignes, France, as the Waffen SS overran the American positions and stormed the village. Sophian was a surgeon, and he refused to abandon the fourteen wounded paratroopers in his care. He surrendered by waving a white flag at the door of the badly shelled Norman church where his aid station was located. He hoped for fair prisoner treatment in accordance with the Geneva Convention of 1929. The German troops instead committed unspeakable atrocities, leaving many of the American prisoners mutilated in grotesque heaps. All of the American prisoners, including Sophian, were killed.

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