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As World War II drew to a close in Europe, the Germans emptied out their prison camps and began a death march across Europe. Nearly a million men struggled through the ordeal that varied from five hundred to a thousand miles, through the worst winter in memory. Food had to be scrounged or stolen, and men died by the thousands. Amazingly, this is the least-known major event of World War II. Even most veterans of that war have never heard of this barbaric event. Invariably, when people hear the term “death march” they think of Bataan, yet the European Death March involved far more men, over a much longer route, through an unbelievably brutal winter. 88 Days tells the true story of Clem Pine, who flew 29 missions as the tail gunner on a B-17 before being shot down, imprisoned in Stalag Luft 4, and then surviving the death march for 88 days.