Andrew Hodges Jr

An injury kept him out of World War II. So he joined the Red Cross. While serving others something horribly went wrong. It led to him being captured and placed in a Nazi prison. But he didn't let it take him out. He learned early in life the power of negotiating. Such skills is what earned the freedom of 149 POWs. From the iHeart Radio Studio I'm Unplugged and Totally Uncut with the son of that American Hero. Andrew Hodges Jr. An elite British S.A.S. operative on an assassination mission gone wrong. A Jewish New Yorker injured in a Nazi ambush. An eighteen-year-old Gary Cooper lookalike from Mobile, Alabama. In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in prisoner-of-war camps in occupied France, fighting brutal conditions and unsympathetic captors. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even longer. But one man had the courage to fight the odds. In BEHIND NAZI LINES: My Father’s Heroic Quest to Save 149 World War II POW’s, Andrew Hodges tells the true story of his father’s brave mission behind enemy lines to negotiate the safety of prisoners. Join Andrew Hodges on Thursday, August 6th as he shares this remarkable true story of one man’s selflessness, ingenuity, and victory in the face of impossible adversity. Andy Hodges had been excluded from military service due to a lingering shoulder injury from his college-football days. Devastated but determined, he refused to sit at home while his fellow Americans risked their lives, so he joined the Red Cross, volunteering for the toughest assignments on the most dangerous battlefields. In the fall of 1944, Andy was tapped for what sounded like a suicide mission: a desperate attempt to aid the Allied POWs in occupied France—alone and unarmed, matching his wits against the Nazi war machine. Despite the likelihood of failure, Andy did far more than deliver much-needed supplies. Miraculously, local villagers were able to smuggle out a message from the camp, one that reached the Allies and sparked a remarkable quest by an unlikely—and truly inspiring—hero. By the end of the year, he had negotiated the release of an unprecedented 149 prisoners—leaving no one behind. This is his amazing story. About the Author: Andrew G. Hodges Jr., M.D., is the firstborn son of World War II hero Andrew Gerow Hodges. He is a psychiatrist in private practice and has served as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine. Dr. Hodges has helped pioneer a breakthrough to the brilliant unconscious mind, which he explained in his groundbreaking book, The Deeper Intelligence. Criminal investigators and journalists have sought Hodges’ expertise as a forensic profiler in cases ranging from the murder of JonBenet Ramsey to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. He is also the author of Jesus: An Interview Across Time (A Psychiatrist Looks at His Humanity)—a fascinating portrait of Jesus as man and God. Dr. Hodges lives in Birmingham, Alabama, with his family.