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Lightning Down
A World War II Story of Survival
Taschenbuch von Tom Clavin
Sprache: Englisch

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An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.

On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.

Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began.

Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.

The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family.

Lightning Down is a can't-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival.

An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive.

On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.

Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began.

Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.

The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family.

Lightning Down is a can't-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival.

Über den Autor
Tom Clavin
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

ACT I: The Farm Boy
ACT II: The Passenger
ACT III: The Prisoner
ACT IV: The Survivor

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781250878052
ISBN-10: 1250878055
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Clavin, Tom
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 214 x 142 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Tom Clavin
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 126328580
Über den Autor
Tom Clavin
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue

ACT I: The Farm Boy
ACT II: The Passenger
ACT III: The Prisoner
ACT IV: The Survivor

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781250878052
ISBN-10: 1250878055
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Clavin, Tom
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 214 x 142 x 31 mm
Von/Mit: Tom Clavin
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.10.2023
Gewicht: 0,422 kg
Artikel-ID: 126328580
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