Pow #3959
Subtitle: memoir of a World War II airman shot down over Germany
By: Ralph E. Sirianni with Patricia I. Brown.
Contributors: Brown, Patricia I., 1931-
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Sirianni, Ralph E., 1923-; World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, American.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; Prisoners of war -- Germany -- Biography.; Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Personal narratives, American.; Biography.
Other titles: Pow number 3959
Description: "This memoir offers harrowing stories of combat, including detailed descriptions of each of Sirianni's combat missions; reveals the horrors of confinement and the despair of skin-of-the-teeth survival; and remembers camaraderie in the face of German abuse"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: From high school quarterback to aerial gunner; title: Combat training; title: Going overseas; title: The missions; title: Captured; title: Dulag Luft interrogation center; title: Stalag Luft I: the first three months; title: Stalag Luft I: things get worse; title: Stalag Luft I: the last days; title: Going home at last; title: Revisiting Stalag Luft I years later; title: Searching for the plane's crash site.