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The Resource Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin

Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin

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An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began. Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment ... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can't-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
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eng
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Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (08 hr., 33 min., 59 sec.))
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9781250818102
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Lightning down : a World War II story of survival
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Lightning down
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a World War II story of survival
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Tom Clavin
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eng
Summary
An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story. Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began. Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment ... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them. The page-turning momentum of Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family. Lightning Down is a can't-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival. A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
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1954-
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Clavin, Tom
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940.54/7243092
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D805.5.B83
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Read by George Newbern
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1964-
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  • Newbern, George
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  • Moser, Joseph F
  • Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
  • United States
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Prisoners of war
  • Prisoners of war
  • Fighter pilots
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Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin
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Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (08 hr., 33 min., 59 sec.))
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9781250818102
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Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin
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digital storage
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online resource
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spoken word
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Unabridged
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1 online resource (1 audio file (08 hr., 33 min., 59 sec.))
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unknown
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online
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9781250818102
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computer
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digital recording
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other
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