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To Kingdom Come: An Epic Saga of Survival in the Air War Over Germany
Written by Robert J. Mrazek
Narrated by David Drummond
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On September 6, 1943, three hundred and thirty-eight B-17 "Flying Fortresses" of the American Eighth Air Force took off from England, bound for Stuttgart, Germany, to bomb Nazi weapons factories.
Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city-and its deadly flak-would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day, and hundreds of men were lost or missing.
Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen, award-winning author Robert J. Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce air battle and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down-and the tragic fate of those who did not.
Dense clouds obscured the targets, and one commander's critical decision to circle three times over the city-and its deadly flak-would prove disastrous. Forty-five planes went down that day, and hundreds of men were lost or missing.
Focusing on first-person accounts of six of the B-17 airmen, award-winning author Robert J. Mrazek vividly re-creates the fierce air battle and reveals the astonishing valor of the airmen who survived being shot down-and the tragic fate of those who did not.
Author
Robert J. Mrazek
Robert J. Mrazek is the author of the novels The Deadly Embrace, which won the W.Y. Boyd Prize for Excellence in Military Fiction from the American Library Association, Unholy Fire, and Stonewall’s Gold, winner of the Michael Shaara Prize for Best Civil War Novel of 1999. He is also the author of two works of nonfiction, To Kingdom Come, and A Dawn Like Thunder.
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Reviews for To Kingdom Come
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Loved the book for it's content, but I get so sick of these narrators trying to imitate various accents, both national and international. They seem to think that every military pilots and airmen talks like a hillbilly. After a 40 year career as a professional aviator, I can honestly say that I have met only 2 pilots that sound anything like the men these narrators do voices for. Believe it or not, we don't all sound like Bob Hoover or Chuck Yeager. I wish they would just read the book, and leave the rest to my imagination.