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1 online resource (xviii, 198 pages) |
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Departure and border crossings : Newport, New Hampshire, to Cheltenham, England, Spring 1943-1944 -- Captivity : disintegration in the Ardennes Forest, December 10, 1944-c. January 4, 1945 -- Arbeitskommando : Rabenau-Dresden, c. January 5-February 12, 1945 -- In the neighborhood of zero : Dresden, February 13-14, 1945 -- Interlude : Dresden, February 18-c. April 25, 1945 -- Persephone and the beast : Brux, Czechoslovakia, c. April 26-May 1, 1945 -- Love in the ruins : Brux, Czechoslovakia, May 2-13, 1945 -- Return : Camp Lucky Strike, Normandy, to Newport, New Hampshire, May 13-June 1, 1945 -- Coda : Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire, August 15, 1945. |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners of war, he was marched and conveyed by freight train to Dresden. Surviving the brutal conditions of the labor camps and the Allies' devastating firebombing of the city, he escaped as the losing German army retreated. |
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Spanos, William V.
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Spanos, William V.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.
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Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
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Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945.
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Dresden (Germany) -- History -- Bombardment, 1945.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Spanos, William V. In the neighborhood of zero. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2010 9780803226814 (DLC) 2009033454 (OCoLC)431935667 |
| ISBN |
9780803229976 (electronic bk.) |
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0803229976 (electronic bk.) |
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