Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble is a 2005 history of World War II by New York Times reporter Roger Cohen. It recounts the ordeals suffered by the 550 American prisoners of war shipped into eastern Germany during the winter of 1944–1945.[1]

Soldiers and Slaves: American POWs Trapped by the Nazis' Final Gamble
AuthorRoger Cohen
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherKnopf
Publication date
April 26, 2005
Media typePrint
Pages320 pages
ISBN978-0-375-41410-7
OCLC56111710
940.54/7243/0943184 22
LC ClassD805.5.B46 C63 2005
Preceded byHearts Grown Brutal 

Summary edit

Cohen details how the prisoners, many of whom were accused by their Nazi captors of being Jewish, were mixed in with victims of the Holocaust and sent to a concentration camp in Berga.[1]

Reviews edit

Publishers Weekly stated that "Cohen's level of detail... makes this journalistic history come alive." Author Elie Wiesel stated that "Cohen is to be thanked for revealing to the public its profound human drama with talent, sensitivity, and a commitment to truth."[1]

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