Girl and the Bombardier (eBook)

A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France

Susan Tate Ankeny (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
210 Seiten
Diversion Books (Verlag)
978-1-63576-714-8 (ISBN)

Infos

This enthralling WWII biography combines a downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished memoir with letters from the French girl who saved his life. Susan Tate Ankeny's father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, and the fake identity cards he used in his escape. Ankeny spent more than a decade tracking down letter writers, their loved ones, and anyone who had played a role in her father's story, culminating in a trip to France where she retraced his path with the same people who had guided him more than sixty years ago. While piecing together her father's wartime experience, Ankeny discovered a remarkable hero. Godelieve Van Laere was just a teenaged girl when she saved the fallen Lieutenant Dean Tate, risking her life and forging a friendship that would last into a new century. The result is a fascinating and dramatic World War II tale enhanced by personal interviews with participants. It traces the transformation of a small-town American boy into a bombardier, the thrill and chaos of aerial warfare, and the horror of bailing from a flaming aircraft over enemy territory. It distinguishes the actions of a little-known French resistance network for Allied airmen known as Shelburne. And it shines a light on the courage and cunning of a young woman who risked her life to save another.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: air corps • Air Force • American • American air force • american army • american military • army history • B-17 • b-17 bomber • Bomber • Escape • Flying Fortress • France • French Resistance • Germany • Hitler • military history • Nazi • Nazi occupation • occupied france • paratrooper • Paris • Rescue • Survival • Third Reich • United States • Vichy • World War 2 • World War II • ww2 • WWII
• ISBN-10: 1-63576-714-8 / 1635767148
• ISBN-13: 978-1-63576-714-8 / 9781635767148