The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All For the GreatestRescue Mission of World War II
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Author(s)Gregory A. Freeman
PublisherNAL Hardcover
ISBN / ASIN0451222121
ISBN-139780451222121
Sales Rank458,118
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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Draws on recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews to recount the dramatic story of a World War II rescue mission in 1944 during which the OSS embarked on a daring scheme to recover more than five hundred airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. 40,000 first printing.
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