- Paperback: 201 pages
- Publisher: Stackpole Books (December 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 158976126X
- ISBN-13: 978-1589761261
- Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.1 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 327 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,494,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The author and his eight crewmembers bailed out of their crippled B-24 on their 24th mission over enemy territory. Shot at and then captured by the Germans, they were taken to a stalag in Nuremberg, and then on a forced march to another in Moosburg. They were strafed by Allied planes, nearly lynched by an angry mob, starved, and shot at again by retreating SS just before their liberation by General Patton. Incredibly, all nine crewmembers survived, and eight of them contributed to this remarkable account that took 20 years to write.
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A real page-turner, Feb 19 2007
By John F. Harper "Reader, tinkerer, etc." - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Against All Odds: Shot Down Over Occupied Territory in WWII (Paperback)
I've read a lot of books of various periods in history - they all, of course, tell about events and their causes. But very, very few of them succeed in rendering their subject matter as a "felt experience". This book accomplishes that. While reading it, I had the feeling that I knew what it felt like to have been with these guys in their training and on their missions, even though I had not even been born yet when these events occurred.History does not exist as an abstraction; it exists as a personal perspective, as actual people lived and experienced it. This book draws you into those events and times in such a way that make the intervening 60 years seem but a moment.
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Unique in that Officers and EM were kept together., May 1 2007
By James Hammond - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Against All Odds: Shot Down Over Occupied Territory in WWII (Paperback)
Shot down late in the war, January 28th,1945, when most Stalags were , or had been , put on the road in Germany's worst winter in 50 years, this crew was unique in that they were kept together, as they made their way to Moosburg Stalag 7A. The book has good maps of their routes. Their individual stories are very powerful in the "warts and all" way they are presented without any defensiveness. When Worthen made Bombardier, instead of Pilot, he was devastated, but wrote it may have saved the lives of a crew later. One crewman wrote of his emotional problems openly, which I appreciated having been raised by a former POW who had walked out of Germany thru Stalag Luft 3, 13D and 7A, it was refreshing.There could be more pictures. The thought that 78000 US POWs were left behind with the Russians is a stretch, and disproved in the recent,"The Last Escape" by John Nichol, where it is shown that US Pows were returned in exchange for giving Stalin a free hand in Poland, and for handing over the Russian POWs, many who had fought for the Germans, to Stalin, who then had them murdered. The suggestion that their engine feathering problems, causing their crash, were due to mechanic sabotage back at the 93rd BG, Hardwick, was kind of a shock. The idea comes from the Co-Pilot who disliked B-24s and being a Co-pilot. This was the first time I had seen this sabotage idea inside the BG in 40 books on this subject. In spite of some of my concerns this is a fine book/diary about a "good group of people" who more than met the test they were given.
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Delivered Far More Then I Expected, Feb 1 2007
By Mark Eugene LaScotte - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Against All Odds: Shot Down Over Occupied Territory in WWII (Paperback)
I really enjoyed the style in which this book was written.Fifty years after these events took place; nine of the original ten crewmembers of this doomed B-24 were assembled again for this writing. Each one was able to share a snapshot glimpse of what they experienced in their own words and thoughts as the story progresses.
Very interesting, it really gives the reader a front row seat to what these brave men lived and survived.
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