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Author:	Lewis H. Carlson	Publisher:	Harpercollins
ISBN-10:	0465091202	Subject:	History
ISBN-13:	9780465091201	Topic:	--
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	1997	Condition:	Like New
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Length:	258 pages
Height:	9.5 in.
Width:	6.3 in.
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Weight:	21.6 oz.

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During the Second World War, Germany captured nearly 94,000 American soldiers, while the Allies shipped almost 380,000 Germans to the United States. "We Were Each Other's Prisoners" compares, for the first time ever, stories of POWs from both sides of the conflict: From the anti-Nazi German soldier who tried desperately to turn himself in rather than fight for Hitler, to the US prisoner who thrice escaped his German captors--the last time to join Russian troops in the Battle of Berlin, to the Jewish-American prisoner who was sent to a slave labor camp. Culled from more than 150 interviews with 35 American and German surviving POWs, the book addresses larger political and psychological issues: What does it mean to be a prisoner, especially for men whose cultures prize individual heroism?
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'Lewis Carlson's book has kept me up several nights--an acid test. I've found it illuminating, tough, often devastating." Ad. - Paul Fussell "A stunning job of research and analysis....Offers powerful and lasting insights into the social dynamics of war, so well that it must be considered a classic of modern oral history." Ad. - Robert C. Doyle

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We Were Each Other's Prisoners: An Oral History Of World War Ii American And German Prisoners Of War (Hardcover) by Lewis H. Carlson
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# Hardcover: 288 pages
# Publisher: Basic Books; 1st edition (April 3, 1997)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0465091202
# ISBN-13: 978-0465091201
# Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.2 x 1 inches

Based on more than 150 interviews with surviving POWs, a moving collection of stories told by soldiers on both sides relates their experiences during World War II, including the stories of an anti-Nazi who tried to turn himself in to avoid fighting for Hitler to a U.S. prisoner who escaped his captors three times.

An affecting wide-angle overview of the POW experience during WW II. Drawing on interviews with more than 150 US and German soldiers who were interned, Carlson (History/Western Michigan Univ.) offers a judiciously organized survey that lets a host of exprisoners of war speak for themselves. He first addresses the severe mental shock sustained by combatants who were taken captive on the battlefield or (in the case of downed airmen and D-day paratroopers) behind the lines. The author next focuses on the physical hardships, short rations, and other privations endured by Americans confined in the Third Reich's typically primitive camps; by contrast, their German counterparts who sat out the fighting in Stateside lockups had a far easier time of it. In some instances, moreover, American POWs identified as Jewish, or incorrigible, or suspected of being spies were sent to concentration camps; over 50 years later, their matter-of-fact recollections of the ghastly events they experienced bear eloquent witness to humankind's infinite capacity for inhumanity. Carlson goes on to debunk the Hollywood myth that escape was a preoccupation of either Allied or German POWs; precious few ever made it beyond the wire, or even tried. Covered as well is the grisly fate of informers as well as undercover agents who tried and failed to infiltrate inmate populations on either side of the Atlantic and, the Geneva Convention notwithstanding, the dilatory pace of repatriation from the US. While almost all American interns were freed by their own or Soviet troops before V-E Day, fewer than 75,000 of the 380,000- odd Germans held in the US were sent home in 1945; in addition, many of those who made it back to Europe in 1946 spent another three years as POWs in England or France. A scholar's illuminating rundown, complete with telling anecdotal detail, on a great war's largely forgotten men. (illustrations)

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