48 Hours to Hammelburg
New York, N.Y. PBJ Books, 1982. First PBJ Books, Inc., printing [stated]. Mass market paperback. xix, [1], 199, [5] pages. Map. Footnotes. Bibliography. Cover has wear and soiling. This is the story of one of the boldest and most exciting missions of World War II was carried out far behind the German lines by a handful of brave American soldiers. Yet in spite of having all the elements of a great popular adventure, it is a story that has never been told before in detail because of the power and position of the man who ordered the mission carried out. This is the first attempt to tell the story in full detail. Their target was Hammelburg, a POW camp sixty miles behind enemy lines. Their objective--to rescue the 1000 Allied prisoners held there. Three desperate German divisions stood in their way, ready to counterattack with a last-stand fierceness. Charles Henry Whiting (18 December 1926 – 24 July 2007), was a British writer and military historian and with some 350 books of fiction and nonfiction to his credit, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms including Duncan Harding, Ian Harding, John Kerrigan, Leo Kessler, and Duncan Stirling. In 1967, he began writing nonfiction books for the New York publisher Ian Ballantine. Whiting continued this work even when producing novels. Between 1970 and 1976, he wrote a total of 34 books which he described as "Bang-bang, thrills-and-spills". From 1976, he was a full-time author and would average some six novels a year for the rest of his life. He was a prolific military historian, who developed a niche market for writing about the Second World War from the point of view of the experiences of regular soldiers rather than the military strategists and generals. More