Late in 1944, 13 U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness, taking refuge with the Partisan underground. Holed up in a starving village, encircled by Nazis, and abandoned by British secret agents, the airmen had to flee or be killed. Drawing on 20 years of research, dozens of interviews, and previously unpublished letters, diaries, and memoirs, Charles Stanley Jr. unveils the shocking true story of his father and the 18 soldiers who escaped across the blizzard-swept Dinaric Alps.