Freedom Line: The Brave Men and Women Who Rescued Allied Airmen from the Nazis During World War II by Peter Eisner
	List Price:   $13.95 Unit Price:   $11.16 You Save:   $2.79 (20%) ISBN-10:   0060096640 ISBN-13:   9780060096649 Publisher:   HarperCollins; Harper Perennial Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   June 2005 Pages:   352 Format:   Paperback
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The Freedom Line unfolds a surprising history of World War II, telling the gripping story of the men and women who risked their lives to save Allied airmen trapped behind enemy lines. The Freedom Line unfolds a surprising history of World War II, telling the gripping story of the men and women who risked their lives to save Allied airmen trapped behind enemy lines. When twenty-year-old American pilot Robert Grimes was brutally shot down over Belgium on October 20, 1943, he was stranded and instantly became the target of Gestapo manhunts. Wounded and lost, he was rescued by operatives of the Comet Line, a resistance group made up of young men and women from Nazi-occupied territory who formed an underground network that recovered Allied aircrews and guided them to safety. Their road to freedom was a perilous journey by train, bicycle, and foot that stretched hundreds of miles across occupied France to the Pyrenees Mountains at the Spanish border. Experience an engrossing story of survival and resistance, as veteran journalist Peter Eisner vividly tells this remarkable history through the eyes of the participants -- the former airmen as well as their rescuers.