The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II by Gregory A. FreemanMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Wow, this is a great untold tale of WW II that someone needs to make a movie out of. Hundreds of American airmen shot down in Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia where Serbian villagers risked their own lives to give refuge to the soldiers. Then 1944 and Operation Halyard with enough inherent risks with British Allies and American command elements actively working against rescue due to the greater efforts of the Cambridge Spy Ring, specifically James Klugmann. Despite all this; hunkered airmen sending wireless requests for rescue and villagers making a landing field on a mountainside without much more than bare hands. All this to be suppressed, even to the point of not revealing the Order of Merit to Serbian guerilla General Draza Mihailovich who perpetrated this under the noses of the occupying Germans.
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