Tidal Wave
The Pilots, the Princess, and the Enemy Ace - A True Story of Courage and Survival in WWII
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5,0 • Оценок: 9
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of A Higher Call, Spearhead, and Devotion comes an astonishing true story set in an untold arena of World War II.
“Tidal Wave is epic in every way. Like all good WWII books, it reminds us again, in the starkest terms possible, how much we owe to those who won that war.”—Daniel James Brown, author of The Boys in the Boat
It’s summer 1943, and the world is on fire.
Lieutenant Ernie Poulson, a twenty-two-year-old outdoorsman from Utah, finds himself at the controls of America’s most advanced bomber, the B-24, brought to North Africa for a top-secret mission.
On the far side of Europe, Lieutenant Constantin Cantacuzino, Romania’s most daring ace, duels Soviet fighters on the Eastern Front while searching for purpose in an unwinnable war.
In Nazi-aligned Romania, Princess Catherine Caradja walks a perilous line between loyalty to her country and quiet defiance, as German forces dig in around the oil refineries in her backyard.
And in the royal palace, twenty-one-year-old King Michael of Romania—mocked and sidelined by a Nazi-backed dictator—quietly plots to seize his nation’s destiny before it is lost forever.
In Tidal Wave, Adam Makos brings these lives together in a sweeping saga of courage and survival, set against history’s most audacious air raid: the treetop assault on “Hitler’s gas station” at Ploesti, Romania. What begins in flames on August 1, 1943, sparks bonds no one could have foreseen—alliances between enemies—that will decide whether these men and women are consumed by war, or seize their chance at escape and redemption.
Drawn from years of extensive research and told with Makos’s signature cinematic intensity, Tidal Wave will remind you that even in war’s darkest hours, humanity has a way of breaking through.
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Gripping from start to finish!
Tidal Wave may be Adam’s best work. The characters behind this incredible true story draw you in from the very beginning, and it’s almost impossible to put the book down once you start reading. This is one of those books that you want everyone to read, because the characters inspire you to want to be a better person. It’s a story that our world needs now, more than ever. Tidal Wave is a triumph.
What. A. Book.
I don't know where to start: The mission? The crash? The not knowing who is alive and where? The tunnel? The escape? The flight to Italy? The airlift? The Princess's escape? Her meeting her boys again?
This book reads like fiction yet every photo (and you learn every interview and diary entry was meticulously poured over for accuracy) along the way stands to its truth. Which, I loved the photos- what a great way to read with faces and maps every few pages to help your visual journey alongside the words on the page.
My only complaint is that each of these stories deserves their 400+ page book- they are so engaging in their own right.
Get through the first few chapters- they're slower and they set the stage- the rest of the book flies faster than the B-24's on their low level bombing runs!