Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical
narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie
Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the
final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis,
and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of
lives?then and now.
Captured in the Battle of the Bulge, Master Sergeant Roddie
Edmonds was the highest-ranking American soldier at Stalag IXA, a
prisoner of war camp near Ziegenhain, Germany. A native of
Knoxville, Tennessee, Roddie was a simple, soft-spoken man of
deep inner strength and unwavering Christian faith. Though he was
driven to the limits of endurance, Roddie refused to succumb to
Nazi brutality toward the Jewish-American GIs with whom he was
serving.