Author: John L. Lenburg
Publisher: Moonwater Press
ISBN: 0990328759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
June 30, 1944, fifty members of the United States 460th Bomb Group embarked on an important mission to destroy German oil refineries in Silesia, Hungary, only to come under heavy attack. Above the cloud cover, German twin-engine Me-410 fighters firing 20-millimeter cannons blasted seven B-24s out of the sky. Seventeen U.S. airmen were killed, twenty-four captured, with many burned, wounded, or beaten by Hungarian peasants after parachuting to the ground. This single event marked the beginning of a heart-wrenching episode in the life of one airman: T/Sgt. John L. Lenburg. On his thirty-sixth mission, he was shot down along with the crew of their B-24, “Miss Fortune,” over enemy lines near Lake Balaton, Hungary. Taken prisoner (or “Kriegsgefangenen #6410,” the code name the Germans gave him), he never knew if he would see his homeland again. WALK TO FREEDOM: Kriegsgefangenen #6410 - Prisoner of War is Lenburg’s powerful, compelling account of his 327 days of imprisonment and long walk to freedom eleven months after his capture. Recalling the inhumane treatment and horrific conditions of his encampment, the missions and memories, and the reunions of the few who survived fifty years later, this revised and expanded, illustrated memoir demonstrates why Lenburg and his crew were “the greatest generation” of their time. REVIEWS "A stirring account of experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II and particularly his time in a Nazi prison camp." - Indianapolis Star "A powerful saga of violence, suffering, strength of character and the determination to persevere...a welcome and much appreciated contribution to the growing library of World War II combatant biographies and eye-witness memoirs." --Midwest Book Review
Walk to Freedom: Kriegsgefangenen #6410: Prisoner of War
Author: John L. Lenburg
Publisher: Moonwater Press
ISBN: 0990328759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
June 30, 1944, fifty members of the United States 460th Bomb Group embarked on an important mission to destroy German oil refineries in Silesia, Hungary, only to come under heavy attack. Above the cloud cover, German twin-engine Me-410 fighters firing 20-millimeter cannons blasted seven B-24s out of the sky. Seventeen U.S. airmen were killed, twenty-four captured, with many burned, wounded, or beaten by Hungarian peasants after parachuting to the ground. This single event marked the beginning of a heart-wrenching episode in the life of one airman: T/Sgt. John L. Lenburg. On his thirty-sixth mission, he was shot down along with the crew of their B-24, “Miss Fortune,” over enemy lines near Lake Balaton, Hungary. Taken prisoner (or “Kriegsgefangenen #6410,” the code name the Germans gave him), he never knew if he would see his homeland again. WALK TO FREEDOM: Kriegsgefangenen #6410 - Prisoner of War is Lenburg’s powerful, compelling account of his 327 days of imprisonment and long walk to freedom eleven months after his capture. Recalling the inhumane treatment and horrific conditions of his encampment, the missions and memories, and the reunions of the few who survived fifty years later, this revised and expanded, illustrated memoir demonstrates why Lenburg and his crew were “the greatest generation” of their time. REVIEWS "A stirring account of experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II and particularly his time in a Nazi prison camp." - Indianapolis Star "A powerful saga of violence, suffering, strength of character and the determination to persevere...a welcome and much appreciated contribution to the growing library of World War II combatant biographies and eye-witness memoirs." --Midwest Book Review
Publisher: Moonwater Press
ISBN: 0990328759
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
June 30, 1944, fifty members of the United States 460th Bomb Group embarked on an important mission to destroy German oil refineries in Silesia, Hungary, only to come under heavy attack. Above the cloud cover, German twin-engine Me-410 fighters firing 20-millimeter cannons blasted seven B-24s out of the sky. Seventeen U.S. airmen were killed, twenty-four captured, with many burned, wounded, or beaten by Hungarian peasants after parachuting to the ground. This single event marked the beginning of a heart-wrenching episode in the life of one airman: T/Sgt. John L. Lenburg. On his thirty-sixth mission, he was shot down along with the crew of their B-24, “Miss Fortune,” over enemy lines near Lake Balaton, Hungary. Taken prisoner (or “Kriegsgefangenen #6410,” the code name the Germans gave him), he never knew if he would see his homeland again. WALK TO FREEDOM: Kriegsgefangenen #6410 - Prisoner of War is Lenburg’s powerful, compelling account of his 327 days of imprisonment and long walk to freedom eleven months after his capture. Recalling the inhumane treatment and horrific conditions of his encampment, the missions and memories, and the reunions of the few who survived fifty years later, this revised and expanded, illustrated memoir demonstrates why Lenburg and his crew were “the greatest generation” of their time. REVIEWS "A stirring account of experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II and particularly his time in a Nazi prison camp." - Indianapolis Star "A powerful saga of violence, suffering, strength of character and the determination to persevere...a welcome and much appreciated contribution to the growing library of World War II combatant biographies and eye-witness memoirs." --Midwest Book Review
Kriegsgefangenen #6410 (prisoner of War)
Author: John L. Lenburg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prisoners of war
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Walk to Freedom
Author: John L. Lenburg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990328742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
American POW survivor John L. Lenburg vividly recounts his experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II and tortuous eleven months of captivity in a Nazi concentration camp, including the inhumane treatment, horrific conditions, mental and physical abuse, starvation and doubts he would see his homeland again, in this compelling biography.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780990328742
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
American POW survivor John L. Lenburg vividly recounts his experiences in the Army Air Force during World War II and tortuous eleven months of captivity in a Nazi concentration camp, including the inhumane treatment, horrific conditions, mental and physical abuse, starvation and doubts he would see his homeland again, in this compelling biography.
Matt Groening
Author: John L. Lenburg
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996320634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Matt Groening is a cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for creating "The Simpsons," television's longest-running primetime animated series. Although it debuted as a series of cartoon shorts for another television show in 1987, "The Simpsons" launched on its own in 1989, making the dysfunctional family of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie famous almost overnight. At the time, Groening was already a successful cartoonist, whose "Life in Hell" comic strip appeared in underground newspapers and book collections. The Simpsons became a cultural phenomenon while Groening went to create the animated science-fiction series "Futurama," launch a Simpsons-based publishing company called Bongo Comics, and produce "The Simpsons Movie.""Matt Groening: From Spitballs to Springfield" by Jeff Lenburg describes the life and career of one of animation's most successful artists, known for his unique drawing style and quirky sense of humor.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780996320634
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Matt Groening is a cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for creating "The Simpsons," television's longest-running primetime animated series. Although it debuted as a series of cartoon shorts for another television show in 1987, "The Simpsons" launched on its own in 1989, making the dysfunctional family of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie famous almost overnight. At the time, Groening was already a successful cartoonist, whose "Life in Hell" comic strip appeared in underground newspapers and book collections. The Simpsons became a cultural phenomenon while Groening went to create the animated science-fiction series "Futurama," launch a Simpsons-based publishing company called Bongo Comics, and produce "The Simpsons Movie.""Matt Groening: From Spitballs to Springfield" by Jeff Lenburg describes the life and career of one of animation's most successful artists, known for his unique drawing style and quirky sense of humor.
The American P.O.W. experience
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428990542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428990542
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 85
Book Description
Special Bibliography Series
Author: United States Air Force Academy. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Shelburne Escape Line
Author: Réanne Hemingway-Douglass
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473861071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
An account of WWII rescues that “pays tribute to the audacity and heroism of the men and women of the French Resistance and Allied military personnel” (Warship World). The Shelburne was one of the later escape lines that operated within Nazi-occupied Europe. It was established at the end of 1943 by two agents who worked for MI-9, the London-based military intelligence agency responsible for providing assistance to Allied servicemen stranded behind enemy lines. Working with the French Resistance, these agents arranged for groups of Allied airmen to be taken from “safe houses” in Paris to Brittany, where a Royal Navy motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded beach and delivered them back to England. Eight audacious evacuation operations were conducted between January and August, 1944, without the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated by the Gestapo. Aspects of the Shelburne story have been told previously in memoirs by several of the participants, including the late MP Airey Neave, who was an MI-9 operative. However, Hemingway-Douglass expands the story to include recollections of some of the local Breton people who were involved with the Line. The second half of the book comprises personal stories of airmen and other individuals who were affiliated with the Shelburne Line or were otherwise caught up in the war in France. A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took eight years to research and write the book. She describes it as a labor of love that pays tribute to the heroism and courage of “ordinary” people, while reinforcing the fact that war touches everybody. “Fascinating . . . A must read for military and espionage enthusiasts.” —The Bulletin (Military Historical Society)
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473861071
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
An account of WWII rescues that “pays tribute to the audacity and heroism of the men and women of the French Resistance and Allied military personnel” (Warship World). The Shelburne was one of the later escape lines that operated within Nazi-occupied Europe. It was established at the end of 1943 by two agents who worked for MI-9, the London-based military intelligence agency responsible for providing assistance to Allied servicemen stranded behind enemy lines. Working with the French Resistance, these agents arranged for groups of Allied airmen to be taken from “safe houses” in Paris to Brittany, where a Royal Navy motor gunboat picked them up from a secluded beach and delivered them back to England. Eight audacious evacuation operations were conducted between January and August, 1944, without the Shelburne Line ever being infiltrated by the Gestapo. Aspects of the Shelburne story have been told previously in memoirs by several of the participants, including the late MP Airey Neave, who was an MI-9 operative. However, Hemingway-Douglass expands the story to include recollections of some of the local Breton people who were involved with the Line. The second half of the book comprises personal stories of airmen and other individuals who were affiliated with the Shelburne Line or were otherwise caught up in the war in France. A lifelong Francophile, Hemingway-Douglass took eight years to research and write the book. She describes it as a labor of love that pays tribute to the heroism and courage of “ordinary” people, while reinforcing the fact that war touches everybody. “Fascinating . . . A must read for military and espionage enthusiasts.” —The Bulletin (Military Historical Society)
Deadly Liaisons
Author: Jeff Lenburg
Publisher: Moonwater Press
ISBN: 0996320679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NOVEL, SCARED TO DEATH, COMES HIS LATEST PAGE-TURNER Luke Beckett is anything but your average Hollywood vice squad detective. A cop who refuses to play the game, he is like some Avenging Angel always quick to judge, and to punish with his rock-hard fists those who don’t see his way. Forced to resign after a prostitute bust goes awry, he accepts a police lieutenant position in that God-forsaken place, Palm Springs, where there is hardly enough action to keep his blood circulating. That all changes when his ex-wife Marcia, since re-married to an aging American tycoon and one of Palm Springs’ wealthiest, most influential residents, is found murdered at a swank party under suspicious circumstances with hardly a clue. Assigned to investigate her murder, this short-tempered, superbly trained former big city cop finds more than he expects—a secret romance with a lesbian lover and possible mob connections to her untimely death and assassination attempt on his own life—in this engaging, thought-provoking original hard-boiled mystery.
Publisher: Moonwater Press
ISBN: 0996320679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE CRITICALLY-ACCLAIMED NOVEL, SCARED TO DEATH, COMES HIS LATEST PAGE-TURNER Luke Beckett is anything but your average Hollywood vice squad detective. A cop who refuses to play the game, he is like some Avenging Angel always quick to judge, and to punish with his rock-hard fists those who don’t see his way. Forced to resign after a prostitute bust goes awry, he accepts a police lieutenant position in that God-forsaken place, Palm Springs, where there is hardly enough action to keep his blood circulating. That all changes when his ex-wife Marcia, since re-married to an aging American tycoon and one of Palm Springs’ wealthiest, most influential residents, is found murdered at a swank party under suspicious circumstances with hardly a clue. Assigned to investigate her murder, this short-tempered, superbly trained former big city cop finds more than he expects—a secret romance with a lesbian lover and possible mob connections to her untimely death and assassination attempt on his own life—in this engaging, thought-provoking original hard-boiled mystery.
Yearbook of German-American Studies
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : German American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Freedom Walk
Author: Noit Hyde
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789996340246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Freedom Walk is Noit's story as she grew up in Cambodia. At age eleven her life dramatically changed as the communist Khmer Rouge overthrew Cambodia. Their communist ideology centered on purging the residents of cities, who were the educated urban elite, in favor of the agrarian class of mostly uneducated rural farmers. They purposefully destroyed the entire nation, hoping to build a perfect "utopia" from the rubble. The result was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century in which the beautiful country of Cambodia became known simply as the "Killing Fields". Noit was enslaved, along with her entire family, and forced to work to build someone's dream of an agrarian utopia which only resembled a nightmare. Her life was constantly in danger as nearly everyone around her succumbed to torture, overwork and starvation. Nearly everyone in her family and millions of Cambodians perished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The journey of Noit's freedom was more than just escaping the encampment where she was enslaved and finding her way back to her home, but involved granting forgiveness to the very people who tried to destroy her life. Through her freedom walk, Noit is now truly free.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789996340246
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Freedom Walk is Noit's story as she grew up in Cambodia. At age eleven her life dramatically changed as the communist Khmer Rouge overthrew Cambodia. Their communist ideology centered on purging the residents of cities, who were the educated urban elite, in favor of the agrarian class of mostly uneducated rural farmers. They purposefully destroyed the entire nation, hoping to build a perfect "utopia" from the rubble. The result was one of the worst genocides of the 20th century in which the beautiful country of Cambodia became known simply as the "Killing Fields". Noit was enslaved, along with her entire family, and forced to work to build someone's dream of an agrarian utopia which only resembled a nightmare. Her life was constantly in danger as nearly everyone around her succumbed to torture, overwork and starvation. Nearly everyone in her family and millions of Cambodians perished at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. The journey of Noit's freedom was more than just escaping the encampment where she was enslaved and finding her way back to her home, but involved granting forgiveness to the very people who tried to destroy her life. Through her freedom walk, Noit is now truly free.