Parachute to Berlin

"Lowell Bennett did not write as a journalist but in the honest and human prose of the best in memoirs, a work well received in 1945 that still takes the reader on a great adventure today. The author raises blunt questions about the failure and waste of the allied air campaigns that might also be asked of the United States in Korea and Vietnam years later." -New York Journal of Books

Bennett was one of several journalists to fly a night raid over Berlin in November 1943. This is the vivid testimony of an American journalist shot down over Berlin. After he was captured in Berlin, he was taken on a tour of Germany and shown what the civilian population was being subjected to. Bennett spent the rest of the war in Stalag Luft I, where he started the newspaper POW WOW, secretly read by 9,000 prisoners. Bennett's experiences led him to condemn the Allied policy of systematically bombing civilian population centers.

Table of Contents

1. Assignment Over Germany
2. Parachute to Berlin
3. Unexpected Visitor
4. To Solitary Confinement
5. Questions and Answers
6. Nazidom’s Guest
7. Wartime Tourist
8. Daylight Bombing Commentary
9. Ravaged Ruhr
10. Escape
11. Slata Praha
12. Gestapo Interlude
13. Illegal Tourism
14. Chain-Letter Sabotage
15. The House That Flak Built
16. Not as Briefed
17. Pow Wow
18. May Day Liberation
19. Flight to Civilization