TY - BOOK AU - Spanos,William V. TI - In the neighborhood of zero: a World War II memoir SN - 9780803229976 AV - D805.G3 S716 2010eb U1 - 940.54/7243092 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - Spanos, William V. KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Personal narratives, American KW - Prisoners and prisons, German KW - Prisoners of war KW - Germany KW - Biography KW - United States KW - Ardennes, Battle of the, 1944-1945 KW - Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 KW - Prisonniers et prisons des Allemands KW - Prisonniers de guerre KW - Allemagne KW - Biographies KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Historical KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - Military KW - World War II KW - fast KW - Dresden (Germany) KW - History KW - Bombardment, 1945 KW - Dresde (Allemagne) KW - Histoire KW - 1945 (Bombardement) KW - Dresden KW - Electronic books KW - Personal narratives KW - American N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=314516 ER -