Raid!
The Untold Story of Patton's Secret Mission
Published on 2. April 2009
272 pages
978-0-307-48998-2 (ISBN)
Description
The orders came from Patton himself: Take a strike force behind enemy lines--with no air or ground support--and liberate a POW camp at Hammelburg, where Patton's son-in-law was held. Captain Abe Baum and an armored task force answered the call, crashing through an enemy-held town, plunging into German territory, and fighting their way to Hammelburg. With the German army closing in around them, the raiders kept going, until they had liberated 1,500 prisoners of war.
Baum's Raiders had just achieved an impossible objective. Now they had to get back out....RAID!
Written by the men who were there, Raid! is the gripping real-life story of a controversial mission in the heart of World War II. From the belly of a Sherman Tank pelted with enemy fire to the POWs waiting behind barbed wire, this is a thrilling, you-are-there chronicle of human courage--in the face of impossible odds.
Baum's Raiders had just achieved an impossible objective. Now they had to get back out....RAID!
Written by the men who were there, Raid! is the gripping real-life story of a controversial mission in the heart of World War II. From the belly of a Sherman Tank pelted with enemy fire to the POWs waiting behind barbed wire, this is a thrilling, you-are-there chronicle of human courage--in the face of impossible odds.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Contents
- Prologue
- Chapter 1 - We've Got Our Orders
- Chapter 2 - Task Force Baum
- Chapter 3 - Delay at Schweinheim- We're Going Through!
- Chapter 4 - Oflag XIIIB
- Chapter 5 - Attack at Gemünden
- Chapter 6 - Back at the Camp.
- Chapter 7 - The Battle for the Hammelburg Oflag
- Chapter 8 - Fifteen Hundred, Eager for Freedom
- Chapter 9 - Like a Blind Worm Over the Countryside
- Chapter 10 - Apocalypse on the Reussenberg
- Chapter 11 - Every Man for Himself
- Chapter 12 - Good Luck/Bad Luck
- Chapter 13 - Paris in the Spring
- Chapter 14 - Baum vs. the Brass
- Epilogue
- Postscipt: Where Are They Now?
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
