Author Description

In an epic novel of World War II in Europe, author O'Bannon has painted powerful, intimate portraits of the men and women on both sides who lived that agony. R.A.F. fighter pilot Bob Cochran; Luftwaffe ace Helmut Gottfried (you'll think you are guiding the speeding aircraft); Monique Moulin and her sister Anne Marie, shadowy members of the French Underground; U-Boat captain Erich Landmann; Sub Lt. Peter Cochran of the Corvette HMS LOTUS (the descriptions will make the reader part of the shipboard discipline---rushing the pulse--exciting the mind)......O'Bannon weaves these desparate lives together brilliantly. Above all, you will relive, through these pages, the triumphs and tragedies of ordinary men and women on both sides at a time when the fate of the free world hung in the balance. Having lived through "the greatest war" and having friends who plied the seas and drove the planes through the air, O'Bannon is a carefully studied student of that period of history.