The full title is actually The Dog Who Could Fly: The Incredible True Story of a WWII Airman and the Four-Legged Hero Who Flew At His Side. The book is a chronology of events based on a rough manuscript created by a WWII veteran Czech airman Robert Bozdech. Damien Lewis obtained the manuscript fr...
After a few seconds he emerged with an expression of massive relief on his features. He raised his fine blond eyebrows in amazement. “Seems to be okay. No harm done. Bloody incredible.”Thankfully, each of the Pinkies had an oil pan guard—a sheet of solid steel that ran beneath the engine—and it w...
The Whitley’s engines had been throttled right back, but still Hislop was sucked into the churning maelstrom of the aircraft’s slipstream, the pummelling taking his very breath away. He was spat out on the far side. Hislop sensed himself falling for just an instant, before...
He also had with him the veterans of his Irish Patrol, plus Pipo – the mischievous Lion of Leros. Unfortunately, the evil-smelling Dog Tom had somehow been left behind. Yet now that his wish had been granted and he’d got to join the ‘big war’, Lassen would find himself increasingly fettered by it...
No matter what, he would not be moved.For tonight’s raid over Hamm, Robert had taken a turn as C for Cecilia’s rear gunner. As the hands of his watch crept toward one in the morning, he had felt a slash of blinding light burn into his eyes as a searchlight swept across their aircraft. They were r...
But one, prisoner 81A-Medan, was left tied to a post in the British hut. Thanks to his days serving in the merchant navy, Frank knew just about every seaman’s knot there is to tie. He’d used a slipknot to fasten Judy, one that would come loose under moderate pressure. Knot tied, he’d ordered her ...