Betrayed: Secrecy, Lies, and Consequences - Paperback

by Frederic H. Martini (Author)

Betrayed is the true story of two men on opposing sides in WWII, one a sergeant in the US Air Corps and the other a Nazi rocket engineer. The sergeant was shot down, betrayed, and imprisoned in Buchenwald, while the engineer, an SS-Major, became a national hero of the Third Reich. After the war, the records of both men were classified Top Secret and concealed by threats, denials, and misrepresentations. The US government refuted the sergeant's accurate account, while promoting a fabricated history for the engineer, Dr. Wernher von Braun, who became as famous in the US as he had been in Nazi Germany. Betrayed demonstrates how an unconstrained military intelligence operation disrupted the lives of American ex-POWs in the name of "National Security."

Author Biography

Frederic H. Martini, PhD (Cornell 1974) is the lead author of ten undergraduate textbooks, two Atlases, and five clinical manuals in the fields of anatomy and physiology or anatomy. He has also written a book for amateur naturalists, and his professional publications include journal articles, contributed chapters, technical reports, and magazine articles. Betrayed started as a story about his father's experiences in WWII. It evolved over seven years, as he unearthed declassified wartime and post-war documents held in the national archives of the US, UK, France, and Germany. Those seeking additional information about the author or about Betrayed should visit www.fredericmartini.com.