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Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
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Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines Paperback - 2006

by Mangerich, Agnes

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Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive, a group of World War II Army flight nurses crash-lands in Albania, finding courage and strength in the kindnesses of Albanians and guerrillas who hide them from the Germans. 26 illustrations.

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  • Title Albanian Escape: The True Story of U.S. Army Nurses Behind Enemy Lines
  • Author Mangerich, Agnes
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition New edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University Press of Kentucky
  • Date 2006-04-14
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 0813191572.G
  • ISBN 9780813191577 / 0813191572
  • Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.96 x 6.1 x 0.67 in (22.76 x 15.49 x 1.70 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.547

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First line

A cold drizzle was falling when the jeeps carrying thirteen U.S. Army nurses and twelve medical technical sergeants of the 807th Medical Air Evacuation Squad (MAES), plus one young corporal with the 802d MAES who was catching a ride back to his assigned base, pulled onto the apron of a runway at Catania Main Airfield in Sicily.

From the rear cover

"On November 8, 1943, U.S. Army nurse Agnes Jensen stepped out of a cold rain in Catania, Sicily, into a C-53 transport plane. But she and twelve other nurses never arrived in Bari, Italy, where they were to transport wounded soldiers to hospitals farther from the front lines. A violent storm and pursuit by German Messerschmitts led to a crash landing in a remote part of Albania, leaving the nurses, their team of medics, and the flight crew stranded in Nazi-occupied territory."--BOOK JACKET. "Albanian Escape is the suspense-filled story of the only group of Army flight nurses to have spent any length of time in occupied territory during World War II. The nurses and soldiers endured frigid weather, survived on little food, and literally wore out their shoes in 800 miles trekking across the rugged countryside. Thrust into a perilous situation and determined to survive, these women found courage and strength in each other and in the kindnesses of Albanians and guerrillas who hid them from the Germans."--BOOK JACKET.