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9780805057539

In the Shadows of War An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany

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  • ISBN13:

    9780805057539

  • ISBN10:

    0805057536

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-03-01
  • Publisher: Holt Paperbacks

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Summary

In a small village in France during the fateful summer of 1944, three disparate lives converged in an unlikely secret alliance. Just after D-Day, Colette Florin hid downed American bomber pilot Roy Allen in her rooms above the tiny girls' school where she taught. While concealing him, she was drawn deeper into the clandestine world of the regional underground. There she met the local leader of the Resistance: Pierre Mulsant, a young Frenchman trained by the British secret service who had parachuted into France in the spring of 1944. Drawn from extensive interviews, letters, and archival documents in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, In the Shadows of War follows the fateful twists and turns of Allen's journey from rural France to Paris, capture by the Gestapo, imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and then a POWcamp, and eventual liberation. It is an unforgettable, profoundly moving human drama of love and courage and sacrifice.

Author Biography

Thomas Childers is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of four previous books on World War II, including The Wings of Morning. He lives in Media, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Prologuep. xiii
In Harm's Way
Operation Amoureuse: November 6-7, 1943p. 3
"Specially Employed": March 3-4, 1944p. 25
Milk Run: June 14, 1944p. 54
A Village in France
Un Aviateur Americain: June 1944p. 85
Minister: July 1944p. 116
Une Chaine d'Evasion: July 1944p. 143
Paris
Paris: July-August 1944p. 173
Captain Jacques: August 1944p. 198
The Train: August 15-20, 1944p. 227
Buchenwald
Jedem das Seine: August 20-September 9, 1944p. 253
Nacht und Nebel: September 12-October 4, 1944p. 280
Alone in the Kingdom of the Dead: October-November, 1944p. 316
Prisoners of War
Kriegie: December 1944-February 4, 1945p. 351
Liberation: February-May 1945p. 384
Postscriptp. 405
Notesp. 409
Bibliographyp. 415
Author's Notep. 421
Acknowledgmentsp. 423
Indexp. 427
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