Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front Book

As the Red Army advanced across Poland in 1945, thousands of freed Allied POWs - viewed by the Soviets as cowards or potential spies - were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front. In total secrecy, the OSS - wartime forerunner to the CIA - conceived an undercover mission to rescue them. The man they picked to undertake it was veteran Eighth Air Force bomber pilot Captain Robert Trimble. With little covert training, Trimble survived by wit, courage, and a determination to do some good in a terrible war. Alone, he faced up to the terrifying Soviet secret police and saved hundreds of lives, fighting his own battle against the trauma of war while finding his way home to his wife and child. Based on hours of testimony from his father, Beyond the Call is written by Trimble's son and by British historian Jeremy Dronfield. It is a filmic, inspiring story of a hitherto unknown true hero. This paperback book has 352 pages and measures: 20 x 13 x 3cmRead More

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  • Foyles

    The incredible account - recounted by the protagonists son - of a secret POW rescue mission at the end of WW2

  • 184831941X
  • 9781848319417
  • Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield
  • 5 November 2015
  • Icon Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 352
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