- Title:
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The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi-Occupied France (MP3)
- Written by:
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Seth Meyerowitz; Peter F. Stevens
- Read by:
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Jonathan Todd Ross
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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9 hours 37 minutes
- MP3 size:
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417 MB
- Published:
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September 28 2017
- Available Date:
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September 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489406552
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Historical; World War II
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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'A terrific, thrilling tale you won't want to miss .'
Alex Kershaw, bestselling author of The Liberator
The remarkable untold WWII story of the US airman who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months.
Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second air mission over France when he was shot down in 1943. He was one of only two men on the B-24 Liberator known as Harmful Lil' Armful who escaped death or immediate capture on the ground.
After fleeing the wreck, Meyerowitz knocked on the door of an isolated farmhouse, whose owners hastily took him in. Fortunately, his hosts not only despised the Nazis but had a tight connection to the French resistance group Morhange and its founder, Marcel Taillandier. Meyerowitz and Taillandier formed an improbable bond as the resistance leader arranged for Meyerowitz's transfers among safe houses in southern France, shielding him from the Gestapo.
Based on recently declassified material, exclusive personal interviews and extensive research into the French Resistance, The Lost Airman tells the tense and riveting story of Meyerowitz's trying months in Toulouse – masquerading as a deaf mute and working with downed British pilot Richard Frank Warren Cleaver to evade the Nazis – and of his hair-raising journey to freedom involving a perilous trek over the Pyrenees and a voyage aboard a fishing skiff with U-boats lurking below and Luftwaffe fighters looming above.
The Lost Airman is a never-before-told, fascinating story of spycraft and a true account of endurance, perseverance and escape during the Second World War.
'The Lost Airman is a deeply researched, finely wrought gem ... The courage, quick wits, and sheer guts displayed by Meyerowitz and the men and women of the French Resistance who gambled their lives to help him are simply extraordinary.'
Jack Cheevers, author of Act of War