Seth Meyerowitz
Autor von The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from… von Seth Meyerowitz
Interesting look at the significant and dangerous work done by the French Resistance to assist Allied airmen to escape to Spain during WWII..There's a lot about the French Resistance fighters who risked and many gave their lives or were tortured terrible for helping the Airmen get to Spain and hopefully on to safety . Well researched--makes you want to know more about some items in the book.
Outstanding! Great book about an American airman shot down in France in WWII. Amazing true story and good history. This book explains a lot about occupied France and attempts to get downed airman back to England. It also gives a good account of the French resistance.
Well narrated and interesting look at the significant and dangerous work done by the French Resistance to assist Allied airmen to escape to Spain. Vichy and Gestapo agents were indiscriminate and ruthless in pursuing and exterminating all who opposed them in Occupied France. The determination and dedication of the French cost them dearly as exemplified in this saga of one American Jewish airman. traveling to Spain to return to duty.
The Lost Airman is by the grandson of an American airman who was downed over France during WWII. It is based on private memoirs and interviews. The story is unsurprisingly thrilling given the subject. It is not a classic but well told and very interesting. There may be some fictive elements, going into the heads of characters describing how they are feeling and so on. Harmless, at worst an authors interpretation, but it opens questions if actual events have been changed for a better story - for example I could not understand why a downed American airman is taken by the French resistance into a cafe frequented by the Gestapo. The book changed my perceptions of how downed airmen were smuggled out of the country, not always hidden in attics but moving about in plain sight with fake ID papers, working in day jobs, waiting months for the right opportunity.… (mehr)
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