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Len Kovar
Falling out of the sky was only the beginning. This book is the story of a young airman, Second Lt. Len Kovar, a B-24 bombardier shot down over Eastern Europe on a beautiful day in 1943. This first person account of terror behind enemy lines, capture and imprisonment in Nazi Stalag camps takes readers into the muddy encampments and freezing death marches. As Russian forces advanced, the prisoners struggled to survive each day. Second Lt. Len Kovar shares the strategies that kept him and others alive. Hundreds of U.S. and Allied prisoners died as Nazi captors force-marched them deep inside German lines through one of the worst European winters ever recorded. The author provides a candid story of survival, his personal struggle to endure and a unique insight into the minds of prisoners and German soldiers following orders of their Nazi leaders. Photographs taken with a smuggled camera inside the Stalag razor wire before VE Day are featured. Like many of the soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen of World War II, Len Kovar came home from his service a changed man. As this ‘Greatest Generation’ passes into history, this may be one of the final documented stories of a WWII POW’s courageous survival. This book helps recall how victory is won in the singular stories of the men and women who served.
