Fact and fiction intermix seamlessly to unravel a secret passionately guarded by four aging soldiers. The reader is transported back in time to an imperfect America, with all is incredible virtues and vexing shortcomings, struggling with racial and gender issues while fighting for its very survival.
One of the world's premier historians of WWII, Anthony Beevor turns his focus to an overall narrative of the Second World War, from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 to V-J day on August 14, 1945 and the war's aftermath. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched.
During a routine search mission over the Pacific, Louis Zamperini’s plane crashed into the ocean, and what happened to him over the next three years of his life is a story that will keep you glued to the pages, eagerly awaiting the next turn in the story and fearing it at the same time.
This book grips you like a movie. The true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies: the American — 2nd Lt Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17 — and the German — 2nd Lt Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II.