In the neighborhood of zero : a World War II memoir / William V. Spanos.

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Spanos, William V

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780803229976
0803229976

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the neighborhood of zero.DDC classification:

940.54/7243092 22

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D805.G3 S716 2010eb

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Departure and border crossings : Newport, New Hampshire, to Cheltenham, England, Spring 1943-1944 -- Captivity : disintegration in the Ardennes Forest, December 10, 1944-c. January 4, 1945 -- Arbeitskommando : Rabenau-Dresden, c. January 5-February 12, 1945 -- In the neighborhood of zero : Dresden, February 13-14, 1945 -- Interlude : Dresden, February 18-c. April 25, 1945 -- Persephone and the beast : Brux, Czechoslovakia, c. April 26-May 1, 1945 -- Love in the ruins : Brux, Czechoslovakia, May 2-13, 1945 -- Return : Camp Lucky Strike, Normandy, to Newport, New Hampshire, May 13-June 1, 1945 -- Coda : Main Street, Newport, New Hampshire, August 15, 1945.

Summary: Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners of war, he was marched and conveyed by freight train to Dresden. Surviving the brutal conditions of the labor camps and the Allies' devastating firebombing of the city, he escaped as the losing German army retreated.

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Like so many soldiers of his generation, William V. Spanos was not much more than a boy when he went off to fight in World War II. In the chaos of his first battle, what would later become legendary as the Battle of the Bulge, he was separated from his antitank gun crew and taken prisoner in the Ardennes forest. Along with a procession of other prisoners of war, he was marched and conveyed by freight train to Dresden. Surviving the brutal conditions of the labor camps and the Allies' devastating firebombing of the city, he escaped as the losing German army retreated.