Nancy Parson

In March 1944, 39 American G.I.s, all war prisoners of Germany, were marched into a prison labor camp in Burzen in present-day Poland. As the men lived together, worked together, and learned to survive together, they bonded as brothers. When, in January 1945, they were set on a force march zig-zagging westward away from the closing Russian front, they cared for one another and protected each other, surviving starvation, illness and aily strafing and...