Parachute to Berlin

by Lowell Bennett, Alan Bennett Narrated by David de Vries

Overview

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.



Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.

Editorial Reviews

New York Journal of Books

"Lowell Bennett did not write as a journalist but in the honest and human prose of the best in memoirs, a work well received in 1945 that still takes the reader on a great adventure today. The author raises blunt questions about the failure and waste of the allied air campaigns that might also be asked of the United States in Korea and Vietnam years later."

ARGunners.com

"Bennett’s writings remain the only firsthand reports by an Allied journalist of the RAF and USAAF bombing raids seen at the ground level."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940160520438
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	06/13/2023
Edition description:	Unabridged

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