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    The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
    The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
    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 Nazi Occupied France

    Written by Seth Meyerowitz and Peter Stevens

    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross

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    About this audiobook

    For fans of Unbroken, the remarkable, untold story of World War II American Air Force turret-gunner Staff Sergeant Arthur Meyerowitz, who was shot down over Nazi-occupied France and evaded Gestapo pursuers for more than six months before escaping to freedom. Bronx-born top turret-gunner Arthur Meyerowitz was on his second mission 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, Arthur 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. Arthur and Taillandier formed an improbable bond as the resistance leader arranged for Arthur'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 Arthur's trying months in Toulouse-masquerading as a deaf mute and working with a downed British pilot 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 boat with U-boats lurking below and Luftwaffe fighters looming above. With photographs and maps included, this is a never-before-told true story of endurance, perseverance, and escape during World War II.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJan 19, 2016
    ISBN9781501903410
    The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France

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    • 3/5
      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.
    • 5/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.
    • 4/5
      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.