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02727aam a22003978i 4500 001 DB25F1FA7B8D11E99D2AC64597128E48 003 SILO 005 20190521010106 008 181113s2019 mdu b 001 0deng c 010 $a 2018053653 020 $a 1493038907 020 $a 9781493038909 (hardcover : alk. paper) 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c LBSOR $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- $a e-gx--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a D805.5.C368 $b L55 2019 082 00 $a 940.54/7279173 $2 23 100 1 $a Lloyd, Keith Warren, $e author. 245 14 $a The great desert escape : $b how the flight of 25 German prisoners of war sparked one of the largest manhunts in American history / Keith Warren Lloyd. / $c Keith Warren Lloyd. 263 $a 1904 264 1 $a Guilford, Connecticut : $b Lyons Press, $c 2019. 300 $a 261 pages $b illustrations ;black and white photographs $c 24 cm. $e bibliography, index 520 $a "Dramatic and exciting account of how twenty-five determined German U-Boat crewmen tunneled from American POW camp, crossed the unforgiving Arizona desert, and attempted to return battle. It was the only organized, large-scale domestic escape by foreign prisoners in U.S. history"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Preface: Papago Park -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- Die U-Bootwaffe -- Death of a submarine -- Post Office Box 1142 -- Execution -- Prisoners of war in America -- The land of milk and honey -- Eighty cents a day -- Run for the border -- KapitaÌn zur See -- Out of luck -- Inside Compound 1A -- Digging a tunnel -- The three crazy boatmen -- Sowing chaos -- Memorandum #46 -- Don't fence me in -- The devil must be loose -- Christmas Day 1944 -- Why on earth? -- Fantastic and highly improbable -- Living like Indians -- Jumping cactus -- Let the kid win -- A hell of a state of affairs -- Dereliction of duty -- Big shot -- Punishment -- Sore and disgusted -- Renewing in friendship. 610 20 $a Camp Papago Park (Ariz.) $x History. 650 0 $a Prisoner-of-war escapes $z Arizona $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Tunnels $z Arizona $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z Germany $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Prisoners of war $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Prisoners and prisons, American. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Lloyd, Keith Warren, author. $t Great desert escape $d Guilford, Connecticut : Lyons Press, [2019] $z 9781493038916 $w (DLC) 2018059228 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217023917.0 952 $l ZXPC675 $d 20190521011217.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DB25F1FA7B8D11E99D2AC64597128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search