Lost Airmen, Charles E. Stanley, Jr.
Lost Airmen, Charles E. Stanley, Jr.
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Lost Airmen
The Epic Rescue of WWII U.S. Bomber Crews Stranded Behind Enemy Lines

Author: Charles E. Stanley, Jr.

Narrator: Qarie Marshall

Unabridged: 10 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/15/2022


Synopsis

Late in 1944, thirteen U.S. B-24 bomber crews bailed from their cabins over the Yugoslavian wilderness. Bloodied and disoriented after a harrowing strike against the Third Reich, the pilots took refuge with the Partisan underground. But the Americans were far from safe. Holed up in a village barely able to feed its citizens, encircled by Nazis, and left abandoned after a team of British secret agents failed to secure their escape, the airmen were left with little choice. It was either flee or be killed.

About Charles E. Stanley, Jr.

Charles E. Stanley Jr., the son of one of the eighteen Lost Airmen, is an internationally recognized expert in the field of U.S. airmen downed in WWII. A graduate of the University of South Carolina and the State University of New York, he is a member of the Society for Military History.

About Qarie Marshall

Qarie Marshall has narrated over thirty series for the Discovery Channel and the BBC. He has also been a guest voice on Comedy Central's Drawn Together and has recorded BBC radio plays, the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines, over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox, and numerous audiobooks. In 2007, he was made an Associate Artist of The Purple Rose Theatre.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike

I enjoyed this book quite a bit. It told the stories of multiple bomber missions that bailed out or crash landed in Yugoslavia during the war. It describes their rescue, treatment and repatriation by both Partisan and Chetnik forces, though it concentrated primarily on the rescues by Partisans. The......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

During WWII, many men were shot down as they flew missions against Germany and its allies. As they struggled for survival, many found themselves tested in more than one way. The author follows the journey of his father during World War II, and his struggle not only to keep himself alive, but the men......more

Goodreads review by Steven

This is a collection of stories of US airmen (bombers) who were shot down over Yugoslavia in WWII. My only qualm with this is all of these stories are extremely similar. Which should be expected as all these airmen ended up in the same place at the same time. There is a focus on the authors father (......more

Great Stories I enjoyed the book because it included a lot of stories about of airmen and their crews being shot down and the different ways they were saved and returning to action or going back to the US.......more

Goodreads review by Charles

Goodreads has wrongly ascribed this book to Charles F. Stanley, the Christian writer. Instead, the book was written by Charles E. Staley Jr, the Colby Award-winning historian.......more