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Bailout Over Normandy
- A Flyboy's Adventures with the French Resistance and Other Escapades in Occupied France
- Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
- Length: 9 hrs and 21 mins
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Summary
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 20-06-23
Tom Hanks needs to make this a movie!
Incredible story incredibly told about the greatest generation. I cannot recommend it enough. Just wow
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- Ian B
- 14-12-21
A great tale of a life behind the front line
What a fantastic tale of war torn northern France around D Day, a true boy's own adventure.
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- DNK
- 11-02-24
Story told from a different perspective
An interesting story told from the point of view of an American airman and his interactions with French people during the German occupation of their country. Very enjoyable.
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- Mr Woc
- 08-01-24
Amazing story
This was an unexpected great listen the wording is very colourful and does take a little getting used to
But the story is great and fell like I did the wrong journey with him
Not sure why this only got 4 stars as it’s a 5 star listn as I really enjoyed it and was sad to get to the end
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- Jamie Mclaren-Smith
- 14-12-23
An amazing story that’s well read
I’ve become a little obsessed with books of this type. This popped up as ‘one I may like’, it was a corker of a recommendation. I really enjoyed this book and would recommend. Memoir or good old story, it’s a brilliant listen.
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- j
- 14-12-23
top stuff
Great story great narration and very funny at times.read like a pub story telling between friends
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- tris
- 30-11-23
great story
well done getting this story published & narrated
really enjoyed the adventures of Ted trying to get back to piccadilly made me laugh on more than 1 occasion
RIP Sir !! 👍
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- Matt Simpson
- 04-11-23
A story,...Definitely not a memoir or diary.
Begins with a prologue/statement that the subject of the memoir/biography wrote this soon after the war as a promising yet unpublished writer...... The work was printed unedited from this original.
It starts well, with interesting character, flamboyant but earns your investment.... around a third of the way in the "Post private Ryan" tropes begin to appear.
Montgomery's delays....the British drinking tea , French stereotypes, everyone drinks calvados, and all the farmers' daughters are good cooks and desperate to meet American flyers.
From the halfway point, it takes on the style of a narrated , self-satisfied private detective story..... defying any belief or fact.
The main character is now dancing around the front line of occupied France, wrapped in an American flag...partying with the French resistance,finding cigars,red wine and steak in every haystack, tweaking the noses of the SS and gestapo with his charm and good fortune.
Chucks in a bit of horror and the suffering of the French,.... and manages to cover all the basic European stereotypes.
Maybe he was a fighter pilot,maybe he did get shot down in France and survive the war.....
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- russ wales
- 18-07-23
Not the best
This guy must be the luckiest person in ww11 and must have landed with 200kg of tobacco.
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- Alan Bruce
- 28-02-20
absolute unadulterated rubbish
just don't bother, suffered it for 2 chapters more than enough punishment cant even return this awful trash
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