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St. Martin's Paperbacks
November 2023
On Sale: October 24, 2023
Featuring: Moser
384 pages
ISBN: 1250878055
EAN: 9781250878052
Kindle: B08R2KSXN4
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Non-Fiction Biography
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.
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