The fifteen
murder retribution and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America
The fifteen
murder retribution and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America
Book - 2025
The true story of the long-forgotten POW camps for German soldiers erected in hundreds of small U.S. towns during World War II, and the secret Nazi killings that ensnared fifteen brave American POWs in a high-stakes showdown.
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New York :
Crown,
[2025]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The fifteen : |b murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / |c William Geroux. |
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| 246 | 3 | |a Murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi Prisoners of War in America | |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Crown, |c [2025] | |
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| 300 | |a xxi, 374 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : |b illustrations, maps ; |c 25 cm. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Prologue : A Chair and a Clothesline -- Part I : Life and Death in the Fritz Ritz. From Afrika and the Sea -- "I Just Didn't Lose" -- Incoming -- The Fritz Ritz -- Little Germanies -- "No Place for a Priest" -- Secret Verdicts -- Part II : In German Hands. King Kong in a Cage -- Wrong Side of the River -- The Bastards Get Lucky -- Part III : Wartime Justice. "A Gestapo on the Free Soil of Kansas" -- The Rollkommando -- "Reeducating" the Nazis -- Blind Drop -- "The Dachau Treatment" -- Boiling Point -- Bargaining Chips -- "I Could Not Do Otherwise" -- "Nasty Smiles" -- Part IV : Hostage Diplomacy. A Startling Offer -- Pandemonium -- Hostage Diplomacy -- "Unfavorably Terminated" -- The Elevator Shaft -- "Everything Comes Out Under the Sun" -- Closing the Ledger. | |
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