Bailout Over Normandy, Ted Fahrenwald
Bailout Over Normandy, Ted Fahrenwald
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Bailout Over Normandy
A Flyboy’s Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France

Author: Ted Fahrenwald

Narrator: Corey M. Snow

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/20/2016


Synopsis

A daredevil pilot in the famed 352nd Fighter Squadron, the author of this remarkable memoir bailed out of his burning Mustang two days after D-Day and was launched on a thrilling adventure on the ground in Occupied France.

After months living and fighting with the French Resistance, Fahrenwald was captured by the Wehrmacht, interrogated as a spy, and interned in a POW camp—and made a daring escape just before his deportation to Germany. Nothing diminished this pilot's talent for spotting the ironic humor in even the most aggravating or dangerous situations—nor his penchant for extracting his own improvised and sometimes hilarious version of justice.

A suspenseful World War II account and an outrageously witty tale of daring and friendship, this book brings to vivid life the daily bravery, mischief, and intrigues of fighter pilots, Resistance fighters, and other Allies in the air and on the ground.

About Ted Fahrenwald

Ted Fahrenwald is the author of Wot a Way to Run a War!: The World War II Exploits and Escapades of a Pilot in the 352nd Fighter Group.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bon Tom

Fantastic story, and astonishing writing! If this is really the found memoir like they say, not edited, filtered or modified too much, that fact is incredible just like all the other heroic events from the war itself.......more

Memorable adventures of wwll france this is a treasure of a story. what a great writer he was but the world was unaware until his story was published after his death.......more

Goodreads review by Erin

3.5 stars Bailout over Normandy was not what I expected. It didn't tell the tale of aviator prowess and extraordinary acts of war. This isn't a heroic story to be moved by or brought to tears. There are no daring rescues or brave deeds to be commended. Instead, it begins on the mission Fahrenwald blu......more

Goodreads review by Michael

By far one of the best memoirs I have ever read about D-Day and the months that followed. Fahrenwald writes about his own experiences after his Mustang received damage on a mission over Normandy, causing him to have to bail out over occupied France. His experiences with the French resistance, wander......more

Goodreads review by David

An excellent account of one mans effort to escape from occupied France. Not only does it tell the story of an escape it gives a picture not only of a man living in his wits to survive behind the lines but also if life for those French people living under the Germans and their hardships and privation......more