title: Journey Out of Darkness: The Real Story of American Heroes in Hitler's POW Camps--An Oral History (Praeger Security International)
author:  Hal LaCroix 
description: "Journalist La Croix and photographer Meyer provide the contexts but let the 19 soldiers, who now make weekly visits to a Veterans' Administration support group, talk for themselves about how it was in German prisoner-of-war camps. Their unique double experience of war, in combat and in the camps, their efforts to survive, the coincidences that saved them, the friends they lost, and their homecomings are compelling reading, particularly as some served as naturalized US citizens and two were Jewish." - <strong>American Libraries</strong>
zlib_text: > > Also by Chuck Palahniuk  
  >  
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  > >  _Fight Club_
  
  > >  _Survivor_
  
  > >  _Invisible Monsters_
  
  > >  _Choke_
  
  > >  _Lullaby_
  
  > >  _Fugitives and Refugees_
  
  > >  _Diary_
  
  > >  _Stranger Than Fiction_
  
  > >  _Haunted_
  
  > >  _Rant_
  
  > >  _Snuff_
  
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  > To Amy Hempel—
  
  > —There is no other cheese.
  
  > > He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.
  
  > > — _Adolf Hitler_
  
   **Dispatch**  
   **First**
  
  Begins here first account of operative me, agent number 67, on arrival
  Midwestern American airport greater ![](Images/image00112.jpeg) area. Flight
  ![](Images/image00112.jpeg). Date ![](Images/image00112.jpeg). Priority
  mission top success to complete. Code name: Operation Havoc.
  
  Fellow operatives already pass immigrant control, exit through secure doors
  and to embrace own other host family people. Operative Tibor, agent 23;
  operative Magda, agent 36; operative Ling, agent 19. All violate United States
  secure port of entry having success. Each now embedded among mi