Other Losses

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From a letter to the New York Times Book Review, in response to Stephen Ambrose's article dated February 24, 1991:
" I witnessed the atrocities Stephen Ambrose tries to deny or gloss over in his article, 'Ike and the Disappearing Atrocities'. In the spring of 1945 I was a U.S. Army prison guard at Andernach on the Rhine.
"Mr. Ambrose mentions in passing that' (German P.O.W.s) were beaten, denied water, forced to live without shelter, given inadequate food and inadequate medical care ', then focuses only on the alleged food shortage. He doesn't address the other deprivations; was there also a tent, blanket, clothing, and medical shortage? There was certainly no water shortage; we were right on the Rhine, yet we denied the P.O.W.s sufficient water. Maddened with thirst, some of them crawled under the wires and ran toward

No book has stirred more controversy this year than Oi/ier Losses by James Bacque, already a bestseller In Canada, France, the U.K., and Germany, and the... Tovább

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From a letter to the New York Times Book Review, in response to Stephen Ambrose's article dated February 24, 1991:
" I witnessed the atrocities Stephen Ambrose tries to deny or gloss over in his article, 'Ike and the Disappearing Atrocities'. In the spring of 1945 I was a U.S. Army prison guard at Andernach on the Rhine.
"Mr. Ambrose mentions in passing that' (German P.O.W.s) were beaten, denied water, forced to live without shelter, given inadequate food and inadequate medical care ', then focuses only on the alleged food shortage. He doesn't address the other deprivations; was there also a tent, blanket, clothing, and medical shortage? There was certainly no water shortage; we were right on the Rhine, yet we denied the P.O.W.s sufficient water. Maddened with thirst, some of them crawled under the wires and ran toward

No book has stirred more controversy this year than Oi/ier Losses by James Bacque, already a bestseller In Canada, France, the U.K., and Germany, and the subject of a BBC documentary. An unprecedented three-and-a-half-page front-page attack of the book appeared in the New York Times Book Review, fully three months before the publishing date of the book!
Why the controversy? Other Losses charges that General Eisenhower, as commander-in-chief of the European theater at the end of WW II, was part of a policy that caused the deliberate death from exposure, fecal contamination, and lack of food of a massive number of disarmed German soldiers. Hundreds of thousands of dead prisoners were written off in the army reports simply as "other losses," without any other explanation. In order to write this book, James Bacque spent years tracking the fading trail of this atrocity.

Prima is proud to publish OfAier Losses and to make it available for the first time in the United States. No nation is truly secure and free if it suppresses the truth, however unpleasant.
" The Vosges was just one big death camp I was appalled at the condition of the prisoners "
Col. Philip S. Lauben, U.S. Army, Chief of Staff of the German Affairs Branch of SHEAF, in charge of repatriating German prisoners in 1945 Vissza