The Flying Greek: An Immigrant Fighter Ace's WWII Odyssey with the RAF, USAAF, and French Resistance

Steve N. Pisanos’s The Flying Greek is either the vintage story of an immigrant’s bond with the United States and an aerial event. whilst younger Pisanos arrived within the U. S. in 1938, he labored, studied English, and discovered to fly. He earned a personal pilot’s license in 1941, and shortly after Germany invaded Greece, he volunteered for the embattled British Royal Air strength.

Bamboo Cage: The P.O.W. Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse, 1942-1943 (New Brunswick Military Heritage Series)

In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse grew to become a eastern prisoner of battle at the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, ill, overwhelmed, and labored to near-death, he wasted away till he weighed basically seventy kilos, his existence placing in tenuous stability. there have been strict orders opposed to POWs retaining diaries, yet Wyse penned his observations at the scarce bits of paper he might locate, suffering to explain the brutalities he witnessed.

The Medic: Life and Death in the Last Days of WWII

Leo Litwak was once a college scholar whilst he joined the military to struggle in global warfare II, "a na've, callow eighteen-year-old son ready to hitch different soldier boys being hauled off to conflict. " In 1944 he came across himself in Belgium, in the course of the waning eu struggle, a medic expert to save lots of lives yet frequently powerless to do even more than watch lifestyles slip away.

The Last Ring Home: A POW’s Lasting Legacy of Courage, Love, and Honor in World War II

Touring 40 thousand miles and encouraging love and melancholy in equivalent degree, Lt. Minter Dial’s misplaced Annapolis ring altered the lives of many—not simply those that gazed upon its blue stone. The spellbinding account of 1 man’s obsession with a relations mystery—and the made of a long time of analysis and inquiries—The final Ring domestic explores writer Minter Dial’s pursuit of the genuine tale of his namesake, his past due grandfather Lt.