B-17 pilot recalls combat in the air and onward the ground Escaping certain death - not one time but several times - is the core of this work about an American military man during World War pair One Man's War by Tommy Lahore (Taylor Trade Publishing.B-17 pilot recalls combat in the air and onward the ground Escaping certain death - not one time but several times - is the core of this work about an American military man during World War pair One Man's War by Tommy Lahore (Taylor Trade Publishing, $2595) is the saga of a B- 17 pilot. The author's story began when his plane collided with another B-17 while forward a mission over France and went down. He then pierceed the French Resistance where he engageed his knowledge of explosives to bomb German facilities. After an informant inflected him in, he faced a death doctrine and was sent to a Polish concentration camp Lahore endur the camp's gruesome conditions and eventually escaped just days before the Germans execut each man in the camp. Lahore describes helping liberate a women's slave labor camp and instantly falling in delight in with one of the detainees. Lahore chopp opposite her hair, dressed her like a man, and fre her from the camp. After just three days together, the brace agreed to marry once Rosa checked onward her family's well-being in Poland. They hoped separate trains and never saw each other again. Years later, the author learned that she had become a freedom fighter against the communists, was captured, and had been execut This is the story of single man's difficult war - a war from which, in many ways, he not ever fully recovered. Copyright Challenge Publications Inc. Mar 2003 |
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