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Author Lloyd, Keith Warren, author. Title The great desert escape : how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history / Keith Warren Lloyd. Publisher Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, c2019. Copies
ITEM LOC CALL # STATUS Superior adult nonfiction 940.5472 L777g AVAILABLE Descript viii, 261 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm Note Nonfiction. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-250) and index. Contents Preface: Papago Park -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Die U-Bootwaffe -- Death of a submarine -- Post Office Box 1142 -- Execution -- Prisoners of war in America -- The land of milk and honey -- Eighty cents a day -- Run for the border -- Kapitän zur See -- Out of luck -- Inside Compound 1A -- Digging a tunnel -- The three crazy boatmen -- Sowing chaos -- Memorandum #46 -- Don't fence me in -- The devil must be loose -- Christmas Day 1944 -- Why on earth? -- Fantastic and highly improbable -- Living like Indians -- Jumping cactus -- Let the kid win -- A hell of a state of affairs -- Dereliction of duty -- Big shot -- Punishment -- Sore and disgusted -- Renewing in friendship. Summary "Dramatic and exciting account of how twenty-five determined German U-Boat crewmen tunneled from American POW camp, crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert, and attempted to return battle. It was the only organized, large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in U.S. history"-- Provided by publisher. Subject Camp Papago Park (Ariz.) -- History. Prisoner-of-war escapes -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century. Tunnels -- Arizona -- History -- 20th century. Prisoners of war -- Germany -- History -- 20th century. Prisoners of war -- United States -- History -- 20th century. World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, American. ISBN/ISSN 1493038907 9781493038909 hardcover.
