Beyond the Call : The True Story of One World War II Pilot's Covert Mission to Rescue POWs on the Eastern Front
By Lee Trimble, Jeremy Dronfield
Hardback
As the Red Army advanced across Poland in 1945, thousands of freed Allied POWs – viewed by the Soviets as cowards or potential spies – were abandoned to wander the war-torn Eastern Front.
In total secrecy, the OSS – wartime forerunner to the CIA – conceived an undercover mission to rescue them. The man they picked to undertake it was veteran Eighth Air Force bomber pilot Captain Robert Trimble.