| Description |
1 online resource (289 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. Switzerland on the Brink ; 2. The Policy of Internment; 3. Following the Silk Road ; 4. Like Angels from the Sky ; 5. Escape and Espionage; 6. The Wauwilermoos Penitentiary Camp; 7. Diplomacy and Bombs ; 8. At War's End ; Appendix ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Summary |
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 war's 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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Swiss
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American
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Neutrality -- Switzerland -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Switzerland
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Military operations, Aerial -- American
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Neutrality
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Switzerland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1612513476 |
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9781612513478 |
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