Home From Siberia
The Secret Odysseys of Interned American Airmen in World War II
978-1-58544-010-8 Paperback
6 x 9 x 0 in
248 pp. 9 b&w photos., 1 line drawing., 4 maps.
Pub Date: 06/01/2000
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This is the long-secret and nearly forgotten story of how the Soviet commissariat for internal affairs interned 291 young Americans in Siberia and, at the risk of war on a second front, eventually smuggled four groups of them to south central Asia and finally across the Iranian border.
Official U.S. military records of the internments are impersonal and sketchy. To tell the story in its entirety, Otis Hays, Jr., sought out surviving airmen and found some who had smuggled rudimentary diaries out of the Soviet Union and helped piece together the tale.
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
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