
The Forgotten 500
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Patrick Lawlor
During a bombing campaign, hundreds of American airmen were shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia. Local Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers, and for months the airmen lived in hiding, waiting for rescue.
In 1944, Operation Halyard was born. The risks were incredible. The starving Americans in Yugoslavia had to construct a landing strip: without tools, without alerting the Germans, and without endangering the villagers. And the rescue planes had to make it through enemy airspace and back: without getting shot down themselves.
Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full account of this unforgettable story of loyalty, self-sacrifice, and bravery is now being told for the first time. The Forgotten 500 is the breathtaking, behind-the-scenes look at the greatest escape of World War II.
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Being a military history fan, I was looking forward to this book. I suppose I was anticipating more about the soldiers who were captured and their struggle to escape capture. A part of this book is about the downed airman who flew over Yugoslavia and the great people of that country who harbored them and assisted in their escape. The majority of the book is about clearing the name of Mihailovich who, even though assisted the US airman, was wrongfully sold down the creek. There's a lot of politics in this book. That's neither good or bad, it just something I wasn't expecting and so I felt my mind wander while listening to some of the book. The narrator is very good and kept my interest through the end. If espionage is something you enjoy, this is a good book.More politcal than I anticipated
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Excellent, reveals the truth of what happened
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Sad Honorable Men maligned by US state Dept
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A lesson about the unsung heroes
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n/aExcelent
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Fantastic !
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excellent, fantastic
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It is a story of courage, commitment and love thy neighbor diminished by bureaucratic bungling. I enjoyed it very much!
A Troubling Story of Government Spin
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Amazing
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learned a lot, entertaining
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