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100 1  Langrehr, Henry,|eauthor. 
245 10 Whatever it took :|ban American paratrooper's 
       extraordinary memoir of escape, survival, and heroism in 
       the last days of World War II|h[Hoopla electronic 
       resource] /|cHenry Langrehr and Jim DeFelice. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bHarperAudio,|c2020. 
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511 0  Read by Mike Ortego. 
520    Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an 
       unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of 
       World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper 
       who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi 
       work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.  Now at 95,
       one of the few living members of the Greatest Generation 
       shares his experiences at last in one of the most 
       remarkable World War II stories ever told. As the Allied 
       Invasion of Normandy launched in the pre-dawn hours of 
       June 6, 1944, Henry Langrehr, an American paratrooper with
       the 82nd Airborne, was among the thousands of Allies who 
       parachuted into occupied France. Surviving heavy anti-
       aircraft fire, he crashed through the glass roof of a 
       greenhouse in Sainte-Mère-Église. While many of the 
       soldiers in his unit died, Henry and other surviving 
       troops valiantly battled enemy tanks to a standstill. Then,
       on June 29, Henry was captured by the Nazis. The next 
       phase of his incredible journey was beginning.  Kept for a
       week in the outer ring of a death camp, Henry witnessed 
       the Nazis' unspeakable brutality - the so-called Final 
       Solution, with people marched to their deaths, their 
       bodies discarded like cords of wood. Transported to a work
       camp, he endured horrors of his own when he was forced to 
       live in unbelievable squalor and labor in a coal mine with
       other POWs. Knowing they would be worked to death, he and 
       a friend made a desperate escape. When a German soldier 
       cornered them in a barn, the friend was fatally shot; 
       Henry struggled with the soldier, killing him and taking 
       his gun. Perilously traveling westward toward Allied 
       controlled land on foot, Henry faced the great ethical and
       moral dilemmas of war firsthand, needing to do whatever it
       took to survive. Finally, after two weeks behind enemy 
       lines, he found an American unit and was rescued.  
       Awaiting him at home was Arlene, who, like millions of 
       other American women, went to work in factories and 
       offices to build the armaments Henry and the Allies needed
       for victory. Whatever It Took is her story, too, bringing 
       to life the hopes and fears of those on the homefront 
       awaiting their loved ones to return.  A tale of heroism, 
       hope, and survival featuring 30 photographs, Whatever It 
       Took is a timely reminder of the human cost of freedom and
       a tribute to unbreakable human courage and spirit in the 
       darkest of times. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 Langrehr, Henry. 
600 10 Langehr, Arlene. 
650  0 World War, 1939-1945|xConcentration camps|vBiography. 
651  0 United States|xArmed Forces|xParachute troops|vBiography. 
700 1  DeFelice, Jim,|d1956-|eauthor. 
700 1  Ortego, Mike,|enarrator. 
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