Von Ryan's Express.

Description:

One thousand American and British POWs in an Italian POW camp are herded into boxcars on a train bound for Nazi Germany. Colonel Ryan attempts to lead them across hundreds of miles of Germany into Switzerland.

subjects: World War, 1939-1945 in fiction,  World War, 1939-1945,  Fiction,  NOVELAS,  Prisoners of war,  World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924,  Fiction, general

People: Col. Joseph Ryan,  senior officer in the POW camp

Places: Italy,  Switzerland,  Germany