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In 1944 hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France The odds of their survival were long The odds of escaping even longer But one man had the courage to fight the odds
An elite British SAS operative on an assassination mission gone wrong A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush An eighteenyearold Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile Alabama These men and hundreds of other soldiers found themselves in the prisonerofwar camps off the Atlantic coast of occupied France fighting brutal conditions and unsympathetic captors But miraculously local villagers were able to smuggle out a message from the camp one that reached the Allies and sparked a remarkable quest by an unlikelyand truly inspiringhero
Andy Hodges had been excluded from military service due to a lingering shoulder injury from his college football days Devastated but determined Andy refused to sit at home while his fellow Americans risked their lives so he joined the Red Cross volunteering for the toughest assignments on the most dangerous battlefields In the fall of 1944 Andy was tapped for what sounded like a suicide mission a desperate attempt to aid the Allied POWs in occupied Francealone and unarmed matching his wits against the Nazi war machine
Despite the likelihood of failure Andy did far more than deliver muchneeded supplies By the end of the year he had negotiated the release of an unprecedented 149 prisonersleaving no one behind This is the true story of one mans selflessness ingenuity and victory in the face of impossible adversity
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