An astonishing, never-before-told story of the Second World War, based on newly declassified documents and exclusive interviews. In 1944 the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia. Classified for over half a century for political reasons, the full ...
As terrifying as a B-24 bomber could be when the enemy was lobbing antiaircraft shells, fighters were zooming to strafe you with large-caliber machine guns, and the plane was dying a slow but steady death, Clare Musgrove found it even more frightening to be hanging in the calm air over a land he ...
During my original research for the book I wanted to tell the story of the aircrews that flew the rescue planes and the fighter pilots who protected them, but little information was available. I knew that they would have been part of the Fifteenth Air Force, but nothing more. &n...