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The Enemy Among Us: POWs in Missouri During World War II
The Enemy Among Us POWs in Missouri During World War II Author:David Winston Fiedler During World War II, more than fifteen thousand German and Italian soldiers came to Missouri. This was no invasionary force; rather these were prisoners of war, part of a flood of almost a half-million men captured and sent to the United States, held here until the end of the war. In The Enemy among Us, David Fiedler recounts the creation of the... more » camps and the lives touched when fate brought Missourians and the enemy face-to-face. Though they did not seek those circumstances, none could forget how their lives changed when POWs came to Missouri.« less