CAPTURED!

On a cold winter night in January 1945, American soldiers fighting on the German border had taken shelter inside an abandoned Nazi bunker. Soon, the Germans returned and savagely attacked the fortification, killing twenty American soldiers and taking the survivors as prisoners. One of the American captives was a young soldier/poet named Hugh O'Neill. After O'Neill's death in 2001, a "lost" memoir of his POW experience was discovered. Published for the first time, this harrowing first-person account, with key passages illuminated by the artwork of artist, Gary Dumm, will shock, confound, and ultimately educate its readers with a true backstory from World War II that is both historic and unforgettable.

About the Author

Hugh A. O'Neill, Jr. was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. After the War he'd graduated from UC- Berkeley and worked as a journalist and newspaper editor. He also worked as a public information official for the Mayor of Honolulu and the Dept. of Defense in Washington, DC. O'Neill died of natural causes at the age of 80 in Port Townsend, Washington on September 28, 2001.

Gary Dumm has many hundreds of illustration credits, most notably his extensive work with Harvey Pekar on American Splendor. Dumm's illustrations have also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, the New York Times, the Village Voice, and La Monde. He also illustrated "Fire On The Water", the 2020 graphic novel, he'd collaborated on with author, Scott MacGregor. Today, he remains one of Cleveland's busiest illustrators.

Scott MacGregor has been writing graphic stories for several decades, and is the author of "Fire On The Water" (Abrams ComicArts-2020), a critically acclaimed graphic novel about a major Cleveland industrial accident. He is also an award- winning photographer of Ireland and his photographs and articles have illuminated the pages of several magazines and periodicals.

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