Kamis, 26 April 2018

WWII Book Review: The Forgotten 500

The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II By Gregory Freeman. 305 pp. Caliber Books, 2007. $23.95. Sixty years ago, more than five hundred Allied airmen—starving, frightened, hiding from the Germans—lurked in the hills of Yugoslavia. They’d been shot down during years …

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