Table of Contents

     

 

Fifty-four chapters
      345 pages

1.       Surrendered
 v    The Day of Capture
 v   The Strafing
 v   The Walk To The Rhine
 v   From The Rhine To The Prison Camp

2.       Stalag IV-B
 v     A German Prison Camp
 v
     The British
 v
     The Russians
 v
     A Man of God
 v
     The Second and Last Week at Stalag IV-B

3.       On the Way to the Work Place
 v     Begging
 v
     Frank
 v
     Oscar

4.       Merseburg, Germany…The Work Place
 v     The Second Day of February
 v
     The Gasthaus
 v
     Cold Days of Winter
 v
     Trying Times
 v
     Late February
 v
     A New Direction, Some Kindness and New Hope
 v
     Marching and Singing
 v
     March, Desperate Times
 v
     Before the Fight
 v
     The Fight
 v
     Delicing
 v
     Good News
 v
     The Good Samaritan
 v
     The Man in Black
 v
     Escape into the Village
 v
     The Second Escape, The Beating
 v
     Americans in Erfurt
 v
     Singing God Bless America
 v
     The Last Bomb Crater and the First Laugh
 v
     Pickup the Dying Man and Leaving the Gasthaus

5.       The March to Where Next?
 v     Remembering the Past
 v
     The Road Back Home
 v
     To Leipzig, To Eilenburg On The Mulde and Farther
 v
     The First Rocket Plane and  the Piggy-Back Plane
 v
     In the Pocket

6.       The Last Escape
 v     The Last Theft
 v
     A Clearing
 v
     A Nazi
 v
     The Mayor
 v
     The Tanks…The Young Army
 v
     Backtrack to the Barn…April, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 1945
 v
     The Crossroads

7.       The Americans
 v
     The Americans
 v
     Back Over the Mulde
 v
     Back to Battalion Headquarters
 v
     The Regimental Scout Team
 v
     On the Way Home
 v
     On to England
 v
     Across the Atlantic
 v
     Discharge

8.       The End
  
v     The Real World