Shot from the Sky is about one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: Neutral Switzerland shot down U.S. aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps, detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the wars end. While conditions at the camps were adequate and humane for internees who obeyed their captors orders, the experience was very different for those who attempted to escape. They were held in special penitentiary camps in conditions as bad as those in some ...
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Shot from the Sky is about one of the great, dark secrets of World War II: Neutral Switzerland shot down U.S. aircraft entering Swiss airspace and imprisoned the survivors in internment camps, detaining more than a thousand American flyers between 1943 and the wars end. While conditions at the camps were adequate and humane for internees who obeyed their captors orders, the experience was very different for those who attempted to escape. They were held in special penitentiary camps in conditions as bad as those in some prisoner-of-war camps in Nazi Germany. Ironically, the Geneva Accords at the time did not apply to prisoners held in neutral countries, so better treatment could not be demanded. When the war ended in Europe, sixty-one Americans lay buried in a small village cemetery near Bern.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Black cloth, lettered in orange. As issued. Dust jacket as issued, now in mylar. xvi, 249 pp. Stated "First printing" but no "1" in number line, so (we assume) 2nd ptg. -unless, like Random House, NIP removes the explicit "first printing" designation in 2nd and later printings.
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