Description: Further DetailsTitle: Albanian EscapeCondition: NewSubtitle: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy LinesISBN-10: 0813191572EAN: 9780813191577ISBN: 9780813191577Publisher: The University Press of KentuckyFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 04/14/2006Description: On November 8, 1943, U.S. Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania, Sicily, into a C-53 transport plane. But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari, Italy, where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines. A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania, leaving the nurses, their team of medics, and the flight crew stranded in Nazi-occupied territory. What followed was a dangerous nine-week game of hide-and-seek with the enemy, a situation President Roosevelt monitored daily. Albanian partisans aided the stranded Americans in the search for a British Intelligence Mission, and the group began a long and hazardous journey to the Adriatic coast. During the following weeks, they crossed Albania's second highest mountain in a blizzard, were strafed by German planes, managed to flee a town moments before it was bombed, and watched helplessly as an attempt to airlift them out was foiled by Nazi forces. Albanian Escape is the suspense-filled story of the only group of Army flight nurses to have spent any length of time in occupied territory during World War II. The nurses and flight crew endured frigid weather, survived on little food, and literally wore out their shoes trekking across the rugged countryside. Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive, these women found courage and strength in each other and in the kindness of Albanians and guerrillas who hid them from the Germans.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Agnes Jensen MangerichGenre: BiographyTopic: History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2006 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Albanian Escape
Title: Albanian Escape
Subtitle: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
ISBN-10: 0813191572
EAN: 9780813191577
ISBN: 9780813191577
Release Date: 04/14/2006
Release Year: 2006
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Biography
Topic: Military History
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Name: Albanian Escape : the True Story of U. S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Item Height: 0.7 in
Subject: Military / World War II, General, Women's Studies, Nursing / General
Publication Year: 2006
Item Weight: 14.4 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Social Science, History, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Agnes Jensen Mangerich
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Perfect
