The Resource Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin
Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin
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The item Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
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The item Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
This item is available to borrow from 3 library branches.
- Summary
- "The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 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 22 years old, a farmboy 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. Joe Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured against impossible odds in the most horrific surroundings... until the day the orders are issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan might 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-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Contents
-
- The Farm Boy
- The Train
- The Prisoner
- The Survivor
- Isbn
- 9781250151261
- Label
- Lightning down : a World War II story of survival
- Title
- Lightning down
- Title remainder
- a World War II story of survival
- Statement of responsibility
- Tom Clavin
- Subject
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- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Fighter pilots -- United States
- Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography
- Moser, Joseph F
- Prisoners of war
- Prisoners of war -- Germany
- Prisoners of war -- United States
- truePrisoners of war, American
- Prisons
- trueSurvival (in concentration camps, prisons, etc.)
- United States, Army Air Forces | Fighter Squadron, 429th -- Biography
- World War II
- trueWorld War II -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Fighter pilots
- trueConcentration camps
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "The incredible true story of fighter pilot Joe Moser's war in the sky and secret survival at Buchenwald during World War II. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his 44th combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 150 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 22 years old, a farmboy 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. Joe Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured against impossible odds in the most horrific surroundings... until the day the orders are issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan might 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-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Clavin, Thomas
- Dewey number
-
- 940.54/7243092
- B
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Moser, Joseph F
- World War, 1939-1945
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Prisoners of war
- Prisoners of war
- Fighter pilots
- United States
- Label
- Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Farm Boy -- The Train -- The Prisoner -- The Survivor
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250151261
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2021027076
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- Label
- Lightning down : a World War II story of survival, Tom Clavin
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-301) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Farm Boy -- The Train -- The Prisoner -- The Survivor
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 310 pages
- Isbn
- 9781250151261
- Isbn Type
- (hb)
- Lccn
- 2021027076
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
Subject
- Buchenwald (Concentration camp)
- Fighter pilots -- United States
- Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography
- Moser, Joseph F
- Prisoners of war
- Prisoners of war -- Germany
- Prisoners of war -- United States
- truePrisoners of war, American
- Prisons
- trueSurvival (in concentration camps, prisons, etc.)
- United States, Army Air Forces | Fighter Squadron, 429th -- Biography
- World War II
- trueWorld War II -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, German
- Fighter pilots
- trueConcentration camps
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