I just finished this book and would like to recommend it highly to all here who are interested in books. Talk about a unique war experience...this man had one for certain! Joe Beyrle was captured several times by the Germans and escaped both times. I have forgotten the number of wounds...some by bullets and others by the sheer cruelty of the Gestapo during his imprisonment...none of which caused Beyrle to even consider getting out of the fight. He was finally rescued when the Soviet Army liberated the Stalag he had been imprisoned in, and when told he would be returned to the West, told the Russian Tank Commander (a woman) that he wanted to fight with them the rest of the way to Berlin. I don't want to tell too much of the story, so I will stop here on Joe's story and mention an interresting fact I learned about WWII from the book: In Spring of '45 Stalin used Allied POWS as 'hostages,' saying that if Ike wanted the liberated Allied POWS back he would have to return to the Soviets all of Vlasov's men who had surrendered in the West, which I'm sure doesn't come as any surprise to any of us. At the time, Stalin was considered the lesser of two evils compared to Hitler, but the jury is still out on which one caused more Russian deaths (probably Uncle Joe)!
This is a book that had no dull moments and that is the highest recommendation I can give for a non-fiction! 
Dogdaddy 