Description
The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.
Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.
Author: Lowell Bennett
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 04/06/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781636243160
ISBN10: 1636243169
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Aviation & Nautical
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Military | Aviation & Space
Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.
Author: Lowell Bennett
Publisher: Casemate
Published: 04/06/2023
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.71d
ISBN13: 9781636243160
ISBN10: 1636243169
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Aviation & Nautical
- History | Wars & Conflicts | World War II | General
- History | Military | Aviation & Space