The Maple and the Blue: From tragedy to triumph in war-torn skies...
β Scribed by Patrick Larsimont
- Book ID
- 115071886
- Publisher
- Sapere Books
- Year
- 2023
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780854950461
- ASIN
- B0C2Q9MBQZ
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
Introduction -- Part I. Staking a nation. Chiang Kaishek : saving China -- Nation building -- Nanjing, Nanjing -- To war -- Part II. Momentous times. The Battle of Shanghai -- Trading space for time -- Regime change -- War communism -- Part III. The acid test. The Allies at war -- The turning point
Four days before Christmas 1943, a badly damaged American bomber struggled to fly over wartime Germany. At its controls was a 21-year-old pilot. Half his crew lay wounded or dead. It was their first mission. Suddenly, a sleek, dark shape pulled up on the bomberβs tailβa German Messerschmitt fighter.