Parachute to Berlin

Name: Parachute to Berlin
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Lowell Bennett
ISBN: 9798350830743

Author: Lowell Bennett, Alan Bennett

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/13/2023

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Military Nonfiction, History, Wars, World War Ii

Synopsis

The vivid account of a war correspondent shot down over Germany and taken prisoner.

Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.

About Lowell Bennett

Lowell Bennett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1920. He embarked early on a life of adventure that took him all over the world, before meeting his Scottish wife-to-be in London in 1940 and becoming a war correspondent for the American International News Service. His first war assignment was covering the Allied invasion of Tunisia in October 1942, a story he tells in his first book Assignment to Nowhere, published by the Vanguard Press in 1943.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chad on December 30, 2023

Lowell Bennett's "Parachute to Berlin" is not just a wartime memoir; it's a visceral plunge into the chaotic heart of World War II, experienced through the eyes of a man dangling from a burning bomber above Nazi Germany. Bennett, an American journalist, volunteered to fly on a bombing raid over Berl......more

Goodreads review by MJ on February 13, 2024

Interesting telling of a war correspondent’s adventures as a downed flyer in Nazi Germany and his observations immediately recounted post war. There’s almost a surreal aspect to so many stories that but for his presence you would find incredible.......more

Goodreads review by Phil on September 21, 2024

Well written, thought provoking account of Allied WW II bombing strategy The experiences described and the issues raised are still relevant to today's debate about contemporary conflicts and their dubious morality towards civilian populations. Lovell Bennett also records acts of human kindness and de......more