Passages to Freedom: A Story of Capture and Escape

by Joseph Frelinghuysen, Joseph S. Frelinguysen

Passages to Freedom is the honest, unpretentious story of a captain in the U.S. Army, ambushed and imprisoned in Nazi German-occupied North Africa, and taken to Italian prisoner-of-war camps. On 23 September 1943 Joe Frelinghuysen escaped from a German prison camp at Fonte d'Amore and spent the next seven weeks in the Italian mountains, running and hiding from the Germans, in "a world of cold, filth, and everlasting fear." Joe Frelinghuysen presents the whole story -- his mistakes and his successes -- in a forthright and touching manner. Along with hundreds of other American escapees during World War II, he endured the agonies of war -- the death of comrades as well as the guilt of survival. Passages to Freedom is an enlightening story of a gentle, compassionate man -- a man of deep strength, faith, and conviction -- set in a brutal epoch.

303 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1990

Reviews

[Andy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This was one of the greatest book of all time. It is a fantastic true story of one mans capture and escape in war torn italy