Hidden hell : discovering my father's POW diary /
Robert Miller's father, World War II veteran Herbert Henry Miller, died in 1994. A month later, Robert and his mother discovered the Red Cross diary he had kept while a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany. It became the catalyst for Robert's quest to learn more about his father's war. The...
| Основен автор: | Miller, Robert H., 1954- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New Hope, Pa. :
Patton Pub.,
℗♭2011.
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Print version::
Hidden hell. |
Съдържание:
- Discovering the diary
- West Virginia childhood, getting drafted, meeting Eleanore
- Dad goes off to war
- Omaha Beach
- Normandy and Hedgerow country
- The wooden shoes
- St. LO and Operation Cobra
- Mortain
- Finding the relic and capture by the Germans
- Nazi depravity
- The fifty-four-day march to Germany begins
- Driving through Paris
- Illness on the road
- Crossing the border into Germany
- Arriving at Stalag VIIA
- Interrogation
- Prison camp life
- Heinz, the good Nazi guard
- Work detail in Munich
- POW soup and dad's mothballs
- Munich dealing and stealing potatoes
- The Christmas tree, POW pie, and a charcoal drawing
- Morale plummets and mail arrives
- Heinz disappears and dad plans an escape
- Dad and Bert escape
- Captured
- The second escape
- Captured again
- A second stalag and the hole
- The truth about the war is revealed
- The war ends and the camp goes wild
- The allies and the Red Cross arrive
- The former POWs leave for France
- Camp Lucky Strike
- Farewell to Stephen
- Off to America, where dad and Bert say goodbye
- reunion
- Bert and dad reunite in 1947
- Epilogue.