Tom Wilber Vanishing Point (Relié)

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Titre: Vanishing Point
Condition: Neuf
Sous titres: The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front
Auteur: Tom Wilber
Format: Relié
ISBN-10: 1501769642
EAN: 9781501769641
ISBN: 9781501769641
Publisher: Three Hills
Genre: History
Sujet: Military History, Law & Politics
Date de publication: 2023-05-15
Description:

In Vanishing Point , award winning journalist and author Tom Wilber pieces together the largely forgotten story of the bomber, Getaway Gertie , and an eclectic group of enthusiasts who have spent years searching for it.

At the height of World War II, a B-24 Liberator bomber vanished with its crew while on a training mission over upstate New York. The final hours and ultimate resting place of pilot Keith Ponder and seven other US aviators aboard the plane remain mysteries to this day. The tale is at once a compelling instance of loss on the World War II American home front and a more extensive, largely unreported history. Ponder–a 21-year-old from rural Mississippi–and his crew were tragically unexceptional casualties in the monumental effort to recruit and train an air force en masse to counter the global conquest of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. More than fifteen thousand American airmen and, in some cases, women burned, crashed, or fell to their deaths in stateside training accidents during the war–their lives and stories shuffled away in piles of Air Force bureaucracy.

The forgotten story of Getaway Gertie was originally inspired by summer evenings around the campfire on the shores of Lake Ontario, where parts of the plane have washed up. Building on those campfire tales, Wilber deftly connects myth with fact and memory with historicity. The result is a vivid portrait of the forgotten soldier of the home front and a new take on the meaning of wartime sacrifice as the last survivors of the Greatest Generation pass away.


Sujet: Anglais
Pays/Région de fabrication: US
Item Height: 229
Item Length: 152.00
Item Width: 22.00
Poids: 454g
Année de publication: 2023

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  • Condition: Neuf
  • Title: Vanishing Point
  • Titre: Vanishing Point
  • Sous titres: The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home F
  • Auteur: Tom Wilber
  • Format: Relié
  • ISBN-10: 1501769642
  • EAN: 9781501769641
  • ISBN: 9781501769641
  • Publisher: Three Hills
  • Genre: History
  • Sujet: Anglais
  • Année de publication: 2023
  • Date de publication: 2023-05-15
  • Pays/Région de fabrication: US
  • Item Height: 229
  • Item Length: 152.00
  • Item Width: 22.00
  • Poids: 454g

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