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In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France
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In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany Paperback - 2004

by Thomas Childers

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A "masterful example of nonfiction brought to life"* --the harrowing account of an aviator's World War II journey and the two people who helped him along the way

In a small village in France during the fateful summer of 1944, three disparate lives converged in an unlikely secret alliance. Just after D-Day, Colette Florin hid downed American bomber pilot Roy Allen in her rooms above the tiny girls' school where she taught. While concealing him, she was drawn deeper into the clandestine world of the regional underground. There she met the local leader of the Resistance: Pierre Mulsant, a young Frenchman trained by the British secret service who had parachuted into France in the spring of 1944.
Drawn from extensive interviews, letters, and archival documents in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, In the Shadows of War follows the fateful twists and turns of Allen's journey from rural France to Paris, capture by the Gestapo, imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp and then a POW camp, and eventual liberation. It is an unforgettable, profoundly moving human drama of love and courage and sacrifice.

*The Washington Post Book World

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The winter moon had risen beyond the woods that bordered the field to the east, bathing the frosty stubble with a sheen of brilliant light.

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  • Title In the Shadows of War: An American Pilot's Odyssey Through Occupied France and the Camps of Nazi Germany
  • Author Thomas Childers
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 443
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Henry Holt & Company, New York
  • Publication date 2004-03-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Red Letter, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780805057539 / 0805057536
  • Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.18 x 5.58 x 1.16 in (20.78 x 14.17 x 2.95 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and, Prisoners of war - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002032343
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Thomas Childers is the Sheldon and Lucy Hackney Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of several books on World War II, including The Wings of Morning. He lives in Media, Pennsylvania.

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