Against the Odds

Against the Odds
ISBN-10
1438986335
ISBN-13
9781438986333
Series
Against the Odds
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2009-08-10
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Authors
Elmer John John, Leslie Trotter Zwingli

Description

Elmer's story is relentless in its action, made more exciting by its simple telling. This is not a book that needs hyperbole; the drama is there in his own words. Sean Feast, Author of Carried on the Wind, Heroic Endeavour and Master Bombers I started reading your father's book last night and couldn't stop until I had finished it. Don Elliott, "Pappy to the Kriegies" In addition to recording the military exploits of a young, very brave Pathfinder bomber pilot during the second World War. this down to earth,in the trenches (skies) recap of many harrowing brushes with the grim reaper saga perpetuates the memory of those ten thousand heroic men and women of the Royal Canadian Air Force who gave their lives in Bomber Command. Major Don Little, R.C.A.F. (retired)

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