Raid!: The Untold Story of Patton's Secret Mission

Raid!: The Untold Story of Patton’s Secret Mission

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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.

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Weight 0.153225 kg
Dimensions 1.778 × 10.6172 × 17.1704 cm
Author(s)

Format Old`

Language

Pages

272
Publisher

Year Published

2000-8-8
Imprint

Publication City/Country

USA
ISBN 10

0440236096

"ELOQUENT…UTTERLY BELIEVABLE…IT IS DOUBTFUL WHETHER ANYONE EVER BELIEVED PATTON'S VERSION OF THIS CAPER, BUT IF ANYONE DID, HE CAN'T NOW. CASE CLOSED." — The New York Times Book Review"A true war story that reads like a novel."– The Boston Globe"RIVETING."– The Denver Post"EXCELLENT…THE COLOR AND EXCITEMENT OF A FIRST-RATE NOVEL."– Los Angeles TimesDON'T MISS THESE OTHER OUTSTANDING BOOKS IN DELL'S WORLD WAR II LIBRARY:A Selection of the Military Book ClubVisit our website at http://www.randomhouse.com.A BLOOD-DIMMED TIDETHE BATTLE OF THE BULGE BY THE MEN WHO FOUGHT ITBY GERALD ASTORBLACK MAYTHE EPIC STORY OF THE ALLIES' DEFEAT OFTHE GERMAN U-BOATS IN MAY 1943BY MICHAEL GANNONTHE MIGHTY EIGHTHTHE AIR WAR IN EUROPE AS TOLD BY THE MEN WHO FOUGHT ITBY GERALD ASTOROPERATION ICEBERGTHE INVASION AND CONQUEST OF OKINAWA IN WORLD WAR IIBY GERALD ASTORPANZER COMMANDERTHE MEMOIRS OF COLONEL HANS VON LUCKBY HANS VON LUCK SOLDATREFLECTIONS OF A GERMAN SOLDIER, 1936-1949BY SIEGFRIED KNAPPE WITH TED BRUSAWSTEEL INFERNO1st SS PANZER CORPS IN NORMANDYBY MICHAEL REYNOLDSAVAILABLE FROM BANTAM DELL

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