The Freedom Line: The Brave Men And Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen From The Nazis During World War II
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The Freedom Line: The Brave Men And Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen From The Nazis During World War II by Peter Eisner
As World War I raged throughout Europe, many Allied fliers were shot down in battle. If they survived, the fliers would parachute behind enemy lines, often to find themselves stranded and hunted down by the Gestapo. The luckiest soldiers encountered the Comet Line, an underground resistance group that recovered Allied aircrews and guided them to safety. In The Freedom Line, Peter Eisner tells this extraordinary story through the eyes of the soldiers themselves, along with the brave people who rescued them.
The road to safety was a treacherous one, stretching hundreds of miles across occupied France to the Pyrenees Mountains at the Spanish border. But the selfless civilian fighters of the Comet Line persevered, risking their lives to save hundreds of Americans, British, Australians, and other Allied airmen. Based on in-depth archival research and survivor interviews, The Freedom Line is the story of a group of friends who chose to act on their own out of a deep respect for liberty and human dignity. Peter Eisner is the Deputy Foreign Editor at the Washington Post. He was foreign editor of Newsday from 1985-1989 and served as the paper's Latin America correspondent from 1989-1994. He was also a reporter, editor and bureau chief with The Associated Press. Eisner won the InterAmerican Press Association Award in 1991 for his investigations of drug trafficking in the Americas. He is the author of Death Beat (with Maria Jimena Duzan), and America's Prisoner, which he co-wrote with Manuel Noriega. A highly readable, gripping, and inspirational account of a little-known aspect of resistance history . Highly recommended -- Library Journal ReviewsPETER EISNER is deputy foreign editor at the Washington Post. The Post's coverage of the 2004 Asian Tsunami, which he coordinated, won an award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Also author of The Freedom Line, a winner of the 2004 Christopher Award, Eisner lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
KNUT ROYCE was a major contributor to three Pulitzer Prize-winning stories in three different decades before joining the Center for Public Integrity as a senior fellow. He has won numerous journalism awards, and was named by the Washingtonian as one of the two best investigative print reporters in the nation's capital. He lives in Fairfax, Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060096649 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060096640 |
| Title | The Freedom Line: The Brave Men And Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen From The Nazis During World War II |
| Author | Peter Eisner |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2005-05-31 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
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