La desgarradora lucha de un piloto por sobrevivir al horror de Buchenwald El 13 de agosto de 1944, el
joven piloto estadounidense
Joe Moser, de solo 22 a隳s, despeg?para cumplir su misi鏮 nero 44 sobre la
Francia ocupada. Moser, quien pas?de ser un chico de granja a cumplir su sue隳 de pilotear un
Lockheed P-38 Lightning, una de las armas m嫳 letales de las fuerzas a廨eas estadounidenses contra la poderosa
Luftwaffe alemana, muy pronto descubrir燰 los horrores de la guerra: su avi鏮 fue derribado para posteriormente ser capturado y enviado a
Buchenwald, el terrible campo de concentraci鏮 nazi. Ah? Moser se uni?a una comunidad de m嫳 de
170 pilotos aliados que al igual que 幨 debieron soportar condiciones infrahumanas y resistir d燰 a d燰 la infame violencia y brutalidad con la que los nazis trataban a los prisioneros de guerra.
Basada en hechos reales y con la intensidad de un thriller,
Tom Clavin, autor bestseller del
New York Times, cuenta la poderosa historia de Moser y un grupo de valientes que, desafiando todas las
probabilidades, escaparon de una muerte segura ideando un plan desesperado en el que lo arriesgaron todo.
Esta es una emotiva e inspiradora narraci鏮 de audacia y esperanza, un testimonio de la fuerza humana frente al mal absoluto.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION An American fighter pilot doomed to die in Buchenwald but determined to survive. On August 13, 1944, Joe Moser set off on his forty-fourth combat mission over occupied France. Soon, he would join almost 170 other Allied airmen as prisoners in Buchenwald, one of the most notorious and deadly of Nazi concentration camps. Tom Clavin's
Lightning Down tells this largely untold and riveting true story.
Moser was just twenty-two years old, a farm boy from Washington State who fell in love with flying. During the War he realized his dream of piloting a P-38 Lightning, one of the most effective weapons the Army Air Corps had against the powerful German Luftwaffe. But on that hot August morning he had to bail out of his damaged, burning plane. Captured immediately, Moser's journey into hell began.
Moser and his courageous comrades from England, Canada, New Zealand, and elsewhere endured the most horrific conditions during their imprisonment... until the day the orders were issued by Hitler himself to execute them. Only a most desperate plan would save them.
The page-turning momentum of
Lightning Down is like that of a thriller, but the stories of imprisoned and brutalized airmen are true and told in unforgettable detail, led by the distinctly American voice of Joe Moser, who prays every day to be reunited with his family.
Lightning Down is a can't-put-it-down inspiring saga of brave men confronting great evil and great odds against survival.
