Compared to Casablanca by the Washington Post, this a
page-turning story of a group of resistance workers who secreted
downed Allied fighter pilots through France and into safety in
Spain during World War II.
As war raged against Hitler's Germany, an increasing number of
Allied fliers were shot down on missions against Nazi targets in
occupied Europe. Many fliers parachuted safely behind enemy lines
only to find themselves stranded and hunted down by the Gestapo.
The Freedom Line traces the thrilling and true story of Robert
Grimes, a 20-year-old American B-17 pilot whose plane was shot down
over Belgium on Oct. 20, 1943. Wounded, disoriented, and scared, he
was rescued by operatives of the Comet Line, a group of tenacious
young women and men from Belgium, France, and Spain who joined
forces to rescue the Allied aircrews and take them to safety. And
on Christmas Eve 1943, he and a group of fellow Americans faced
unexpected sudden danger and tragedy on the border between France
and Spain.
The road to safety was a treacherous journey by train, by
bicycle, and on foot that stretched hundreds of miles across
occupied France to the Pyrenees Mountains at the Spanish border.
Armed with guile and spirit, the selfless civilian fighters of the
Comet Line had risked their lives to create this underground
railroad, and by this time in the war, they had saved hundreds of
Americans, British, Australians, and other Allied airmen.
Based on interviews with the survivors and in-depth archival
research, The Freedom Line is the story of a group of friends who
chose to act on their own out of a deep respect for liberty and
human dignity. Theirs was a courage that presumed to take on a
fearfully powerful foe with few defences.
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