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American Airman in the Belgian Resistance
- Gerald E. Sorensen and the Transatlantic Alliance
Engelsk Paperback

American Airman in the Belgian Resistance

- Gerald E. Sorensen and the Transatlantic Alliance
Engelsk Paperback

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In May of 1944, American airman Gerald E. Sorensen was shot down over Nazi occupied Belgium. The Belgian Resistance recovered Sorensen and sheltered him in the home of the Abeels family. Friendship between Sorensen and the Abeels blossomed and they came to consider each other as family. The Abeels were active in the Resistance and Sorensen ultimately volunteered to join his Belgian brother Roger Abeels in the Secret Army. Just moments before the British Army arrived to liberate the village of Marcq-lez-Enghien, Sorensen and Abeels were killed in combat with the Nazis, fighting side-by-side.

This book tells Sorensen''s story: his upbringing, education, marriage and military service; his evasion of capture and kinship with the Abeels; his experience in the Resistance; his final combat and his impact on those he left behind.

But this book is more than a biography. It recounts the courageous struggle of the Belgians who risked everything to save Allied airmen and explains why Sorensen and Abeels are extraordinary symbols of the enduring values at the heart of today''s transatlantic alliance.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
260
ISBN-13:
9780786494972
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786494972
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Udg. Dato:
31 okt 2014
Længde:
13mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
31 okt 2014
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