Home from Siberia: The Secret Odysseys of Interned American Airmen in World War II

By Otis Hays

Book Overview

As war spread across the world at the end of 1941, the Soviet Union found itself between a rock known as Nazi Germany and a hard place called imperial Japan. With all its forces battling Germany in the west, the Soviet Union had to keep peace on its isolated and vulnerable eastern borders. To avoid risking its status as a neutral country in the war between the United States and Japan, the Soviet Union interned many American flyers who crashed or made emergency landings in Soviet territory after bombing Japanese targets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585440108
• ISBN13: 9781585440108
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"