| International Standard Book Number |
9781420522495 (large print ; hardcover alk. paper)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1420522493 (large print ; hardcover alk. paper)
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| Personal Name |
Geroux, William, author.
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| Title Statement |
The fifteen : murder, retribution, and the forgotten story of Nazi POWs in America / William Geroux.
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| Edition Statement |
Large print edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
681 pages (large print), 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
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| General Note |
Published in 2025 by arrangement with Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group. a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-669).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Cast of characters -- Author's note -- 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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| Summary, Etc. |
"On orders from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Department of War built hundreds of POW camps in the United States. Ardent Nazis in the camps attacked fellow Germans they deemed disloyal. Fifteen were sentenced to death for acts of murder. German authorities condemned fifteen American POWs to the same fate and proposed a trade: fifteen German lives for fifteen American lives. Journalist and author William Geroux shines a spotlight on this story of murder and high-stakes diplomacy, and on the fifteen American lives that hung in the balance"-- Back cover.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, American.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prisoner-of-war camps History 20th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Nazis History 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prisoners of war History 20th century. Germany
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Germans History 20th century. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder History 20th century. United States
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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