Fred K. Treiber

Escape Fred K. Treiber

This book begins as WWII nears its end. It reflects the author agonizing over having grown up in America and now being an enemy soldier with the dread of having to shoot at other soldiers in a different uniform, worn by someone who could have been a schoolmate or friend. It also tells of the degradation a vanquished soldier goes through in the hands of the victorBut more than this, it is a story of one man's passion for freedom, going to great lengths to seek it and finally succeeding. Along the way he is always just one step ahead of recapture, aided only by lady luck, planning and daring. He even sidesteps his escape route for a time to become a tour guide for Canadian R & R troops in Bordeaux and becomes enamored of a lady of the night. It is a story beginning on an island off the coast of France, running through cities such as Lorient, Nantes, Tour, Bordeaux, St. Jean de Luz, and the French/Spanish border towns of Hendaye and Irun, Pomplona, Mirand de Ebro, Bilbao, all of which he got to know. A story of French prison camps, Spanish prisons, and an internment camp he also got to know from the inside. All way stations on his continuous escape back to Germany in the summer of 1946.