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Patton's last gamble : the disastrous raid on POW Camp Hammelburg in World War II /

In March 1945, against the advice of his top subordinates, General George Patton created a task force to liberate a POW camp near Hammelburg, Germany. Based on memoirs, diaries, combat reports and interviews with survivors, Patton's Last Gamble vividly recounts a mission General Omar Bradley la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schultz, Duane P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Guilford, Connecticut : Stackpole Books, [2018]
Subjects:
Oflag XIII B (Concentration camp)
Patton, George S. > (George Smith), > 1885-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, German.
Prisoners of war > United States.
Prisoners of war > Germany.
Hammelburg (Germany) > History.
Table of Contents:
  • I have just pissed in the Rhine
  • One last chance to be a hero
  • That is some sorry ass
  • When will this end?
  • The jeep was red with blood
  • The conquering hero
  • Let's just get the hell out of this place
  • Now they know who we are
  • This officer must be saved
  • Mission accomplished!
  • Two hours too long
  • They shot the crap out of us
  • No news of baum
  • That's part of me over there
  • Der Krieg ist kaput
  • A hell of a way for a soldier to die
  • The judgment of history.