Albanian Escape

A significant addition to nursing history literature, reminding us that though recognition of their heroism may be short-lived, nurses serving in the military play a vital role during war.

~American Journal of Nursing

Chronicles on an almost daily basis the activities of the American nurses and medical sergeants as they evaded the Germans, trekked mountain paths, and endured hardships before being led to the Adriatic coast and rescued.

~Army History

Examines how women avoided capture and successfully negotiated harsh, unknown terrain and foreign cultures in a politically chaotic region.

~Choice

Illustrates the bravery and courage of the Albanian Underground during the Second World War in it assistance to downed American flyers.... Sheds light on a theater of operations that has received very little coverage by historians in the United States.

~Journal of Slavic Military Studies

An exciting account of American women's memoirs of their tremendous wartime service to their try.

~McCormick (SC)Messenger

Albanian Escape is the saga of the most exhausting 800 miles and the longest nine weeks in the lives of 13 American Army nurses, their team of medics and two lieutenants and two sergeants who made up their initial four-man flight crew.

~Stars and Stripes

Agnes Mangerich's Albanian Escape, which illustrates the bravery and courage of the Albanian underground during the Second World War in its assistance to downed American flyers.... [It] is a story that had to be told for it deals with a theater of operations that has received very limited coverage by Second World War historians. Unfortunately, due to the onset of the Cold War, the heroics of the Albanian underground have largely been forgotten. Hopefully, Mangerich's work will not be the last on the war in the Balkans.

~Leo J. Daughterty, World War II Quarterly