Entombed : six men buried alive for six years : inspired by a true story /
Matthews, Tony, 1949-
Entombed : six men buried alive for six years : inspired by a true story / Tony Matthews. - viii, 415 pages ; 23 cm.
What would it be like to be trapped deep underground for six long years with no hope of rescue or escape? Inspired by a true story and actual events, Entombed is one of the most astonishing untold stories to emerge from the era of the Second World War. Six German soldiers led by Captain Hans von Roth are accidentally buried alive in a vast subterranean stores bunker at the port of Gdynia, Poland, in 1945. At first they believe they will soon be rescued, but as the weeks drag into years it becomes appallingly clear that the men will almost certainly face a terrifying death in the grim darkness that surrounds them. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hans von Roth's wife, Erika, is desperately attempting to survive the fall of the city and the Russian hordes destined shortly to occupy it. Facing starvation, massive aerial bombing, Soviet shelling and a host of other dangers, she is also attempting to discover what has become of her lost husband.
9781922488572 1922488577
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Bunkers (Fortification)--Fiction.
Underground areas--Fiction
Survival--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).
Entombed : six men buried alive for six years : inspired by a true story / Tony Matthews. - viii, 415 pages ; 23 cm.
What would it be like to be trapped deep underground for six long years with no hope of rescue or escape? Inspired by a true story and actual events, Entombed is one of the most astonishing untold stories to emerge from the era of the Second World War. Six German soldiers led by Captain Hans von Roth are accidentally buried alive in a vast subterranean stores bunker at the port of Gdynia, Poland, in 1945. At first they believe they will soon be rescued, but as the weeks drag into years it becomes appallingly clear that the men will almost certainly face a terrifying death in the grim darkness that surrounds them. Meanwhile, in Berlin, Hans von Roth's wife, Erika, is desperately attempting to survive the fall of the city and the Russian hordes destined shortly to occupy it. Facing starvation, massive aerial bombing, Soviet shelling and a host of other dangers, she is also attempting to discover what has become of her lost husband.
9781922488572 1922488577
World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.
Soldiers--Fiction.
Bunkers (Fortification)--Fiction.
Underground areas--Fiction
Survival--Fiction.
Berlin (Germany)--History--20th century--Fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction).