Von Ryan’s Express by David Westheimer
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Overview: David Westheimer himself was a prisoner-of-war during the Second World War, in Italy, and that fact gives this novel a sense of gritty authenticity that most readers will appreciate. The protagonist, American Colonel Ryan, has been shot down and captured by the Italians. At the POW camp he finds that the largely British contingent has lapsed into dirt and sloth, more or less as a tactic to show non-cooperation with their Italian captors. Ryan is the ranking officer, and he takes command to the dismay of the British command. For Ryan has a different approach. Discipline and spit-and-polish become the order of the day, and he clashes with the British leadership and the men. In fact, they give him the name “Von Ryan,” based on the notion that Ryan’s love of discipline makes him more in common with the German enemy than Allied soldiers.
The camp is liberated, but that is only the beginning of the story. This is the story of a prison break but with a twist. More would be telling but this is an interesting war yarn. This one became a major motion picture in the mid-1960s with Frank Sinatra, now read the book. A great book about WWII P.O.W.’s and escape.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
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