Captivity, Flight, and Survival in World War II.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (270 pages)
Cover -- Captivity, Flight, and Survival in World War II -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Flight from the Enemy: Europe and the Mediterranean -- ST. OMER TO GIBRALTAR -- Organizing Escape and Evasion -- Commando Escapers -- ACROSS THE NORTH SEA -- By Air from Denmark -- FLIGHT IN THE MEDITERRANEAN -- Flight from Crete -- Tobruk: The Sea and the Desert -- Flight with the Germans -- 2 Flight before the Enemy: Asia and the Pacific -- BREAKOUT FROM HONG KONG -- FLIGHT FROM SINGAPORE AND SUMATRA -- FROM SUMATRA TO CEYLON: THE SEDERHANA DJOHANIS -- FLIGHT FROM JAVA -- ESCAPE ACROSS THE INDIAN OCEAN -- Ambon -- ESCAPES FROM THE PHILIPPINES -- From Corregidor to Darwin: The Men of the USS Quail -- Gause and Osborne -- The Guerrillas and Escapes -- Mission from Mindanao: The Voyage of Hamner and the Smiths -- Whitehead's Escape -- NINE MONTHS ON NEW BRITAIN -- 3 Escapes from Prisoner of War Camps in Europe -- LIFE IN THE CAMPS -- MORALE AND DIVISIONS AMONG PRISONERS -- The Mental State of the Prisoners -- THE ESCAPERS -- GERMAN DEFENSES AGAINST ESCAPE -- ESCAPE AIDS -- TYPES OF ESCAPES -- Early Escapes -- TUNNEL ESCAPE -- The Warburg Wire Job -- ESCAPES FROM SALONIKA -- PRISONERS IN ITALY -- Escape by Air -- EAST AND NORTH: ESCAPES VIA THE BALTIC -- ESCAPE FROM COLDITZ CASTLE -- STALAG LUFT III -- The Wooden Horse -- ESCAPE ACROSS THE EASTERN FRONT -- 4 Escapes from Prisoner of War Camps in Asia -- THE JAPANESE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS -- Survival in Japanese Prisoner of War Camps -- RESISTANCE AND ESCAPE -- THE LONGEST ESCAPE -- CABANATUAN TO DAVAO -- HONG KONG -- UNWANTED ESCAPES: THE FIRST OF THE HELL SHIPS -- ESCAPE TO TIBET AND BURMA -- 5 Escape from the Kingdom of Death: Jewish Escapes in Occupied Europe -- ESCAPES FROM GHETTOES -- THE CONCENTRATION CAMP WORLD -- THE LIFE OF THE PRISONERS -- ESCAPES FROM JEWISH PRISONER OF WAR AND LABOR CAMPS. ESCAPE FROM LABOR CAMPS -- THE EASTERN EXTERMINATION CAMPS -- TREBLINKA II -- SOBIBOR REVOLT AND ESCAPE -- ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ -- SIEGFRIED LEDERER -- VRBA AND WEXLER -- LATER ESCAPES FROM AUSCHWITZ -- ESCAPES FROM GERMANY -- ESCAPE FROM THE SONDERKOMMANDOS -- Notes -- Bibliography of Published Sources -- Index -- About the Author.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons. Escapes -- History -- 20th century.