Audiobook Review: Beyond the Call, by Lee Trimble and Jeremy Dronfield
Title: Beyond the Call: The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front Author: Lee Trimble with Jeremy Dronfield. Read by Donald Corren Publication Info: Audible Audio, 2015. 11 hours. Hardcover 2015 by Berkley, 352 pages. Source: Library digital resources Publisher’s Blurb: Near the end of World War II, thousands of Allied ex-POWs were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front, modern day Ukraine. With no food, shelter, or supplies, they were an army of dying men. The Red Army had pushed the Nazis out of Russia. As they advanced across Poland, the prison camps of the Third Reich were discovered and liberated. In defiance of humanity, the freed Allied prisoners were discarded without aid. The Soviets viewed POWs as cowards, and regarded all refugees as potential spies or partisans. The United States repeatedly offered to help recover their POWs, but were refused. With relations between the allies strained, a pl...