Soldiers and Slaves by Roger Cohen | Audiobook

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Listen to free audiobook with a 30 day free trial : https://esound.space/audible Title: Soldiers and Slaves Author: Roger Cohen Narrator: Sam Tsoutsouvas Format: Abridged Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins Language: English Release date: 04-29-05 Publisher: Random House Audio Genres: History, American Summary: Starved and brutalized, the GIs were denied their rights as prisoners of war, their ordeal culminating in a death march that was halted by liberation near the Czech border. Twenty percent of these soldiers, more than 70 of them, perished. After the war, Berga was virtually forgotten, and the experiences of these Americans were buried. Now, for the first time, their story is told in all its blistering detail. This is the story of hell in a small place over a period of nine weeks, at a time when Hitler's Reich was crumbling but its killing machine still churned. It is a tale of madness and heroism, and of the failure to deliver justice for what the Nazis did to these Americans. Roger Cohen uncovers exactly why the U.S. government did not aggressively prosecute the commandants of Berga, why there was no particular recognition for the POWs and their harsh treatment in the postwar years, and why it took decades for them to receive proper compensation. Soldiers and Slaves is an intimate, intensely dramatic story of war and of a largely forgotten chapter of the Holocaust. Contact: [email protected]

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