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Meyerowitz, Seth,.
The lost airman
[TP] :
a true story of escape from Nazi-occupied France /
Seth Meyerowitz, with Peter F. Stevens.
Caliber trade paperback edition.
New York :
Caliber,
2016.
©2016.
xiv, 299 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
illustrations, map, portraits ;
23 cm.
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Originally published by Berkley Caliber in hardcover form in January 2016.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-299).
A needle in a haystack -- "Just a milk run" -- Purple Heart corner -- Hit the silk! -- "What's in his hand?" -- Marcel -- The shed in the woods -- War in the shadows -- "Crazy-mad" -- Aka Georges Lambert -- A long shot at best -- Playing the part -- A narrow escape -- Trouble in Beaumont-de-Lomagne -- Death in the Pink City -- The Gestapo at the door -- Hiding in plain sight -- Not a moment too soon -- The Maquis -- Meet Lieutenant Cleaver -- Unlikely friends -- "It's time" -- Misery in the mountains -- "One of the worst days in my life" -- Parting ways -- A perilous trek -- Stranded -- Good-bye, Georges Lambert -- Death to France -- "Welcome back to the war" -- "It is therefore SECRET" -- Rockaway Beach.
Documents the story of a World War II American Air Force turret-gunner who was one of two escapees when his team's plane was shot down near Cognac in 1943, tracing his harrowing six-month flight to safety across the Pyrenees under constant pursuit by the Gestapo.
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Meyerowitz, Arthur,
1918-1971.
Taillandier, Marcel,
1911-1944.
United States
Army Air Forces
Bombardment Squadron, 715th.
World War, 1939-1945
Underground movements
France.
Airmen
United States.
Escapes
France
History
20th century.
France
History
German occupation, 1940-1945.
Stevens, Peter F.,
1955-