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THE LAST FLIGHT OF POXL WEST By: Daniel Torday
St. Martin's Press
March 2015
On Sale: March 17, 2015
Featuring: Elijah Goldstein; Poxl West
ISBN: 1250051681 EAN: 9781250051684 Kindle: B00N04JOX2 Hardcover / e-Book
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All his life, Elijah Goldstein has idolized his charismatic Uncle Poxl. Intensely magnetic, cultured and brilliant, Poxl takes Elijah under his wing, introducing him to opera and art and literature. But when Poxl publishes a memoir of how he was forced to leave his home north of Prague at the start of WWII and then avenged the deaths of his parents by flying RAF bombers over Germany during the war, killing thousands of German citizens, Elijah watches as the carefully constructed world his uncle has created begins to unravel. As Elijah discovers the darker truth of Poxlβs past, he comes to understand that the fearless war hero he always revered is in fact a broken and devastated man who suffered unimaginable losses from which he has never recovered.
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