FOUR MEN WENT TO WAR

Engineering & Transportation

Lewis, Bruce

Engineering

RANDOM HOUSE UK

This book tells of the adventures of four men of different nationalities who found themselves caught up in the maelstrom of the Second World War. Each of them told their stories to Bruce Lewis, who has skillfully managed to preserve the idiosyncrasies of the contrasting cultures and of the backgrounds of the four men.Odell Dobson came from Virginia, and at the time when his adventures really began he was a waist-gunner in a B-24 Liberator. On September 10, 1944, his plane was shot down over Hanover, Germany. Dobson bailed out, was taken prisoner, gradually recovered from his wounds, and was liberated at the end of the war. He recounts the drama of life as a transient prisoner of war.George "Poacher" Paine came from the East End of London. He repeatedly volunteered for active service, but was turned down on each occasion until one day he was told that he had been chosen for a parachute course, a turn of events which was to take him, via North Africa, to Arnhem and into the hands of the Germans.Helmut Steiner grew up in Cologne happily absorbed in the Nazi indoctrination of the 1930s, and went off to the Russian Front as a tank driver, utterly convinced of the invincibility of the Third Reich. Defeat in the East did not altogether shatter his ideals.Antonio Benetti's childhood was spent variously in Venice, Padua, Milan, and Rome. When Italy entered the war he was an officer in the 7th Alpini Regiment--a regiment of ski commandos. The extraordinary story of his unit's journey to Russia and back makes a fitting climax to the book. Bruce Lewis has, as far as possible, told each man's story in his own words.The result gives a fascinating insight into the effects of background and nationality on each man's attitude to war. Odell's stoicism, Paine's chirpy good humor, Steiner's fanaticism, and Bonetti's awareness of the futility of it all seem to sum up in microcosm the attitudes of the countries which they served.

Four Men Went to War: The True WWII Adventures of a U.S. Air Gunner, a British Paratrooper, a German Tank Driver, and an Italian Ski Commando

History

Americas

St Martins Pr

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Children's Books

Putnam Pub. Group

In a tribute to the Aircrew of Bomber Command, the author, who also wrote "Four Men Who Went to War", describes the responsibilities of the pilot, navigator, flight engineer, co-pilot, bomb aimer and gunner, basing his study both on interviews and his own experience as navigator in World War II.

Aircrew: The Story of the Men Who Flew the Bombers.

Leo Cooper

Juku: A Comics Band presents JUKU: A COMICS ALBUM -- the world's first comics album, a thick hunk of a book that is to an ordinary comic what a full CD album is to a three-minute single. The five members of the comics band Juku present a 244-page anthology containing nine diverse, entertaining "tracks" -- nine all-original stories ranging from quick comedic shorts to mystery to epic battles of good against evil, with endearing tales of everyday life in between. And, at only $10.95 (all comics, no ads or filler copy!) JUKU is by far the best value in comics today. JUKU: A COMICS ALBUM is a whole new concept in comics -- an album sure to please even the most discriminating tastes.

Juku: A Comics Album

Comics & Graphic Novels

Baker, Dan

Hill, Ed

Minuk, Shaindle

Merrill, David R.

Graphic Novels

Cheap Disposable Entertainment, Inc.

Aircrew: Dramatic, first-hand accounts from World War 2 bomber pilots and crew

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

"A hard-hitting serial killer thriller that deftly explores the homeless crisis and the role of law enforcement with unflinching realism. Highly recommended." -BestThrillers.com When veterinary college sweethearts Jim Briggs and Helen Williams broke up to pursue careers in other parts of the country, they had no idea a tragedy would reunite them around a common cause six years later in Portland, Oregon where Briggs operated a mobile canine care service. Shortly after Williams loses her husband in a freak accident and is then attacked and left for dead by a group of homeless predators, she shows up on Briggs' doorstep to take a job managing his pet crematory. Helen's arrival coincides with Briggs' own shock over witnessing a homeless woman flipping out in a drug overdose meltdown, begging, "God please take me." While Briggs struggles with an inner dark voice urging him to put down the homeless meth addict like a stray dog, Williams goes on a murderous rampage for revenge while sleeping with a detective assigned to the case.

Bloody Paws (A Kim Jansen Detective Novel)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Black Rose Writing

"A fast-paced and relentlessly ominous crime thriller that readers can devour on a long flight." –BestThrillers.com 
The theft of priceless books from a public library and the bloody attack on a security guard trying to protect them set Detective Kim Jansen on a twisting road of contradictory evidence and multiple suspects. 
At the center of the mystery is a 100-year-old family secret tied to photographer Edward S. Curtis' 20- volume masterpiece, The North American Indian. 
Bruce Lewis, author of the terrific thriller Bloody Paws, returns with his second Kim Jansen novel. Like its predecessor, Bloody Pages is largely set in Oregon and is centered around one of society’s most troubling social ills.

Bloody Pages (A Kim Jansen Detective Novel)

When a bullet explodes a jar with the remains of beloved bookseller Bruce McQuillan during his memorial ceremony, shrapnel wounds a dozen mourners, including Portland, Oregon Detective Kim Jansen and her boss, Chief Detective Mark Larson. Jansen's search for the shooter soon entangles her in a web of international intrigue and murder connected to the theft of John James Audubon's The Birds of America, one of the world's most valuable books, from the Central Library's rare book room. Complicating the investigation is a growing list of suspects, including a group of eccentric millionaire birders, a woman who trophy hunts African elephants, a former U.S. Army sniper, and the daughter of the dead bookseller. Tying it all together will be Detective Jansen's most challenging case ever.

Bloody Feathers: Death of the Cardinal (A Kim Jansen Detective Novel)

I have long respected Bruce Lewis as a virtuoso Jazz guitarist. A close cousin to Blues, Jazz is dissonant, unstable and like the music he has mastered, the author's prose follows suit. In the tradition of Thomas Wolfe, Lewis's words are a cry to the very soil that birthed each character. In lyrical outbursts, Joshua Celeste remembers and is remembered. We are introduced to the characters that make up Joshua's life from the fields of his boyhood home at Water Maple Farm in Kentucky, with a cattle rancher father and misplaced, glamorous mother to the streets of Budapest, Hungary as a traveling guitarist, a melancholic ex-pat.Bruce Lewis moved to Budapest on May 4th 1993 and stayed until May 22nd 2012. He played with some of the best European musicians in the world, traveling with his guitar to twelve different countries. His insight into the culture and people of the ancient city make Joshua Fragmented part travelogue and history lesson along with a beautiful, philosophical lesson on the sacrifices of art and the pull of home. This book resembles the dissonance of Jazz as a cast of brilliantly articulated characters sing angular harmonies in the reader's ear. We hear the passionate railings of his academia-minded brother, Doc and his loyal, sex-obsessed and jealous bandmate, Crip Kovacs right alongside his grandmother Bertha, mother Agnes and the steady stream of women in which Joshua searches for meaning. It is a testament to the lost, nomadic quality of an ever changing modern world. I am most proud to have a small part in bringing this powerful and original work of fiction to light.Erin Chandler

Joshua Fragmented

Literature & Fiction

Rabbit House Press

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