Lonesome Road
by George Harsh
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"He was a rich kid who had gone wrong . . . who had gunned down a man in a holdup pulled just for kicks. This book is Harsh's brutal description of his odyssey through the horrors of the chain gang and, later, a Nazi prison camp." -- Cover flap.Tags
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George Harsh grew up from a elk to do southern family. As a private school student commits felony murder at 16 life sentence served ten years in a chain gain performs an emergency appendectomy on a man without any medical training. Sentence immured by Georgia governor. Enlists in Canadian RAF as a ball turret gunner. shot down over Germany taken prisoner. Sent to stalag 3 where he was part of great eacape effort. Write in direct strong style without embellishment. Amazing story.
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- Canonical title
- Lonesome Road
- Original publication date
- 1971
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