Passages to Freedom: A Story of Capture and Escape

Passages to Freedom: A Story of Capture and Escape by Frelinghuysen, Joseph. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780897451314.

Passages to Freedom is the honest, unpretentious story of a captain in the U.S. Army, ambushed and imprisoned in Nazi German-occupied North Africa, and taken to Italian prisoner-of-war camps. On 23 September 1943 Joe Frelinghuysen escaped from a German prison camp at Fonte dAmore and spent the next seven weeks in the Italian mountains, running and hiding from the Germans, in "a world of cold, filth, and everlasting fear." Joe Frelinghuysen presents the whole story -- his mistakes and his successes -- in a forthright and touching manner. Along with hundreds of other American escapees during World War II, he endured the agonies of war -- the death of comrades as well as the guilt of survival. Passages to Freedom is an enlightening story of a gentle, compassionate man -- a man of deep strength, faith, and conviction -- set in a brutal epoch.